Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm | |
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Studio album by Various Artists | |
Released | March 24, 2009 [1] |
Recorded | 2008 and 2009 |
Genre | Rock, Tex-Mex |
Label | Vanguard |
Producer |
Bill Bentley Stephen Brower David Katznelson Shawn Sahm |
Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm is a 2009 tribute album to the late Doug Sahm, released on Vanguard Records.
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Austin Chronicle | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | B+ [4] |
Los Angeles Times | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
PopMatters | 7/10 [6] |
Sahm died of a heart attack, in Taos, New Mexico, on November 18, 1999, days after his 58th birthday. As co-producer Bill Bentley [7] recalls, " Shawn Sahm and I tried to do a tribute album right after Doug Sahm died in 1999, but it was just too soon. Ten years later, we found a partner in Vanguard Records, through David Katznelson, and it all fell together." [8]
The album, described as "a warm evocation of Sahm's spirit and sensibility, how he effortlessly encompassed almost every element of Texan music", was favourably reviewed:
According to another reviewer,
Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm | |
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![]() | |
Studio album by Various Artists | |
Released | March 24, 2009 [1] |
Recorded | 2008 and 2009 |
Genre | Rock, Tex-Mex |
Label | Vanguard |
Producer |
Bill Bentley Stephen Brower David Katznelson Shawn Sahm |
Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm is a 2009 tribute album to the late Doug Sahm, released on Vanguard Records.
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Austin Chronicle | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | B+ [4] |
Los Angeles Times | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
PopMatters | 7/10 [6] |
Sahm died of a heart attack, in Taos, New Mexico, on November 18, 1999, days after his 58th birthday. As co-producer Bill Bentley [7] recalls, " Shawn Sahm and I tried to do a tribute album right after Doug Sahm died in 1999, but it was just too soon. Ten years later, we found a partner in Vanguard Records, through David Katznelson, and it all fell together." [8]
The album, described as "a warm evocation of Sahm's spirit and sensibility, how he effortlessly encompassed almost every element of Texan music", was favourably reviewed:
According to another reviewer,