Cover art: Its All in the Game / Wasted Days and Wasted Nights. What was special about the Tornados wasn’t just that they could play Jimmy Reed blues, hard country weepers, Farfisa-fueled garage rock, and Mexican folk tunes within the course of a set, but that they played them all with the same fire and passion, and made them sound like they all belonged on the same sonic menu. Releases include: Zone of Our Own (Texas Tornados), Rock n Country (Freddy Fender). Texas Tornados Before the Next Teardrop Falls (1975) Before the Next Teardrop Falls (2007) by Clay Walker and Freddy Fender Wasted Days and Wasted Nights (. Live from Austin, TX preserves the full, unedited 75-minute set the Tornados played that evening, and the band is on fire from start to finish.
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Never mind the fact that two of the city’s favorite sons, Doug Sahm and Augie Meyers, were members (and that the other key members, Freddy Fender and Flaco Jimenez, were equally beloved throughout the Lone Star State) - in a city with as voracious and omnivorous an appetite for music as Austin, a band that could play rock, blues, country, norteño, swing, boogie, and on occasion all of them at once could only be regarded as a blessing, and when the Texas Tornados appeared on the great PBS music series Austin City Limits for a Fall 1990 taping, a wildly enthusiastic audience turned out to see the not yet year-old band. He also is known as the 'Father of Conjunto Music' (he plays the Conjunto accordion). Flaco Jimnez has played with acts such as The Rolling Stones and Dwight Yoakam. It’s hard to imagine a band that was more perfectly suited for Austin, TX, than the Texas Tornados. Freddy Fender was a cross-over success story around the world, with hits like 'Before the Next Teardrop Falls' and 'Wasted Days and Wasted Nights'. This week, disc is Playing Texas Tornados – Live From Austin this week.
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