Texas Tornados

Texas Tornados | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 17, 1990)
• Original Release Date: July 24, 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Reprise / Wea
• ASIN: B000002LLS
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,088 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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At an age when most performers of their stature are either fading fast or priming for the oldies circuit, Doug Sahm, Freddie Fender, Flaco Jimenez, and Auggie Meyers regrouped and made some of the rawest, swingingest, and most memorable music of their careers. Each member puts a slightly different spin on the Tex-Mex sound and the results blaze back and forth across the boundaries of spicy rock & roll ("Adios Mexico"), Tejano ("Who Were You Thinking Of"), and honky-tonk weepers ("A Man Can Cry"). You don't have to be familiar with Mexican music or the Spanish language to love this album: Its soul knows no borders and rocks right over any resistance. --Roy Francis Kasten

Product Description

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Media Type: CD
Artist: TEXAS TORNADOS
Title: TEXAS TORNADOS
Street Release Date: 07/24/1990
Domestic
Genre: TEJANO

Customer Reviews

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You can't lose..., October 17, 2000

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Bradley Nelson "shippin' musician" (Valparaiso IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Texas Tornados (Audio CD)

The Texas Tornados are like the reverse of the old big-box-containing-a-smaller-box-containg-a-smaller-box joke that your sister pulled on you when you opened your Christmas present. The band presents you with a brightly-colored package (graphically and musically) that seems somewhat modest at first but over time grows into a dear treasure. The songs unashamedly pluck at all the heartstrings with no apologies and you have to laugh at their brazen chutzpah. The musicians' credentials are voluminous and undeniable. The melding of Sahm-Meyers, Fender and Jimenez is a classic case of the whole being more that the sum of the parts. This Tex-Mex album is the AM-radio soundtrack for a sunny spring day driving south on Interstate 25 with the top down and a couple of shots of tequila just starting to warm your gut. Only the most pretentious or dour of listeners will fail to get a spiritual lift from this little gem. Don't cheat yourself-add Texas Tornados to your road collection.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Texas style fun, October 23, 1998

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Phil Farmer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Texas Tornados (Audio CD)

There's that game show on TV where comedians try to make the contestants laugh. If the contestants can keep a straight face they win a toaster-oven or some such. With that in mind I defy you to listen to this albumn without smiling, It's harder than times in twenty-nine. This is fun tex-mex style of the highest order. Flaco Jimenez is a god to me. Doug Sahm is a true classic. Augie Meyers still belts out the cheesiest roller rink organ tones on the planet.(But I mean that in a good way.) Freddy Fender, yes that Freddy Fender, rounds out a steller cast of characters on this jumping albiet short offering.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This music will live forever, June 19, 2000

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T. Humphries "Hairy Potter" (Jefferson Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Texas Tornados (Audio CD)

With the caliber of musicians in this band this music is destined to live forever. How will any other group hope to mach the diversity of the late Doug Sahms, from down and dirty blues to the twangy pedal steel guitar, this home grown Texas superstar will shine forever. This collection of various Tornado tunes highlights well the sound and soul of the TEXAS TORNADOS.