Texas Tornados
Indisputably the ultimate Chicano-Yanqui super group, the Texas Tornados brought together some of the most formidable musical talents to which the Lone Star State ever laid claim. Boasting Norteno and Tex-Mex Conjunto accordion patriarch Flaco Jiménez (born San Antonio, Texas, March 11, 1939), the incomparable country singer guitarist Freddy Fender (born San Benito, Texas, June 4, 1937) and veteran pop-roots-rock paragons Doug Sahm (born San Antonio, Texas, November 6, 1941) and Augie Meyers (born San Antonio, Texas, May 31, 1940), the Tornados churned out an intoxicating bilingual brand of swinging, stomping Tejano, country, Southwestern pop and country-rock. Although this world-class alliance only hung together long enough to deliver four... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Country Rock, Americana, World
- City Of Origin:
- San Francisco, ,California United States
- Formed Date:
- 1989
