Augie Meyers

Augie Meyers

August "Augie" Meyers (b. 31 May 1940 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American musician. He is best known as keyboard-player with the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados.

In the early 1960s Meyers was, with Doug Sahm, a founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet. His Vox organ was a main ingredient in the sound of the quintet, as heard in hits like "She’s About A Mover" (1964), "Mendocino" (1969), "Nuevo Laredo" (1970) and many others. Later Meyers also played on many of Sahms solo albums and released his own solo records, also in Tex-Mex-style.

In the 1990s Meyers was, with Doug Sahm, Flaco Jimenez and Freddy Fender, a member of Tex-Mex-supergroup Texas Tornados. He was also sought after as a studio musician. He worked, amongst others, with Bob Dylan on his albums "Time Out of Mind" (1997) and "Love and Theft" (2001).

In 2005 he played on John Hammond's cd covering Tom Waits songs, "Wicked Grin," and toured with Hammond.

Meyers lives in Bulverde, Texas. Since the 1970s he runs his own record labels from there, namely The Texas Re-Cord Company, Superbeet Records and White Boy Records.

Discography

*The Western Head Music Co. (Polydor 1971)
*You Ain’t Rollin’ Your Roll Rite (Paramount 1972)
*Live At The Longneck (Texas Re-Cord 1975)
*Finally In Lights (Texas Re-Cord 1977)
*Still Growin (Sonet 1982)
*August in New York (Sonet 1984)
*Augie’s Back (Sonet 1986)
*My Main Squeeze (Superbeet 1986)
*Sausalito Sunshine (Superbeet 1988, cassette-tape only)
*White Boy (White Boy 1995)
*Alive & Well At Lake Taco (White Boy 1996)
*Blame It On Love (Texas World 2002)
*My Freeholies Ain’t Free Anymore (El Sendero 2006)

External links

* [http://www.augiemeyers.com official website]


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