Augie Meyers

A pioneering figure in Tex-Mex music, Augie Meyers took the regional sounds of the Southwest around the world with his propulsive, immediately recognizable keyboard style. Meyers rose to fame playing organ in the Sir Douglas Quintet with longtime collaborator Doug Sahm, whose hits "She's About a Mover," "The Rains Came," and "Mendocino" fused garage rock energy with the Texas two-beat. After the Quintet split in 1973, Meyers embarked on a prolific solo career, remaining a potent draw in the Southwest. He and Sahm hit their commercial peak with the Texas Tornados, an all-star Tex-Mex combo who stormed the country and Latin charts, while Meyers continued cutting albums like The Real Tex-Mex (2015), Monkeys on Cocaine (2017), and I Know I Could Be Happy If Myself Wasn't Here (2019) and doing session work with Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and Townes Van Zandt.