Chords for Excerpt from "South Texas Soul" doc: Shawn Sahm Texas Tornados Interview

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_ To me it was always normal [A] what he did.
See I never saw _ us as different from people until I started kind of, you know, you get
into school and you see, you go to other people's houses and all this stuff, you know, and you
start going, oh wow, you know, when you spend the night with Johnny, your little buddy,
you go, wow, Johnny's house is a lot different than mine.
They're not grooving over at Johnny's house, you know, but my house is popping, you know.
And that was the truth because with dad, you know, again, they were always sitting around
with guitars and there were people hanging out and, you know, the history of my father
gets really deep that we'll kind of get into, but, you know, he always had a lot of friends
and at that point, you know, he's bringing people like, you know, Jerry Garcia over and
just, you know, he was always showing up with people, you know, and going to people's, like
Wexler loves to talk about dad just showing up at his house with Bob Dylan, you know,
and said, hey, can we spend the night, you know.
That's the type of dad, person dad was, that's the type of person he was.
He would just, you know, he loved to kind of just spontaneously groove and kind of,
so I'd say, you know, my earliest kind of memories of him being professional, you know,
like playing professionally were stuff like wanting to play his gold records.
Like I remember my mom and dad telling me, I used to throw a fit as a kid, I wanted to
play his little gold records.
Like I didn't want to play the one you were supposed to play, I wanted to play the one
on the wall on the gold record.
I'd point it out, you know, I'd freak out, you know.
And so I remember like all that.
I remember, you know, listening to records when he'd bring it home that he'd just cut
as a kid and he'd go, hey, listen to this.
And I'd be a little kid and he'd bring home, you know, oh hell, I don't know, Mendocino
and all that.
And we'd be listening to little records, you know, the 45s back then, I guess they were
the acetates or whatever.
He'd bring them home to just listen to them.
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[A] He recognized how into his music I was.
It wasn't a thing, it wasn't like, you know, oh I'm just going to have my boy there because
he's my boy and he's going to be there.
Because I say, if you know Doug Sum, he didn't care if you were family related or not.
If you didn't belong on stage, other than, you know, haha, come up and play a song in
groove because you're my boy, you weren't touring, making records and doing what I did
professionally with dad because he was real weird about who he played with.
And it also made me feel good that I, at some point, had graduated to the level to where
he, you know, I was playing in his, you know, in the SDQ and then he'd have me in his little
Doug Sum solo bands and eventually his country bands.
He was just calling me, you know, we had our harmonies down and we were really getting it down.
So, it really made me feel validated as a musician to know that deep down, I don't care
what anyone else thought, I knew the truth that Doug Sum was having me up on stage because
when we hit that damp and we sang that harmony, it was right and I was giving him what he
needed as a partner on stage, you know.
[Em] _ [E] _ _ _ I never known a world without iris, you know what I mean?
And I say that because I ended up knowing a world without people that I didn't want
to know that world without, you know, the Dougs, the Rocky Morales, blah, blah, blah.
So at this point in my life, I don't know what it's, you know, I couldn't even imagine,
I don't know what it's like to not have Augie around because to answer your question, he's
been around my whole life.
I was born into Augie and Doug's relationship.
Our families were born into each other, you know.
[Em] [E] You _ [A] know, it's a funny thing because they had a relationship both together and individually,
you know.
So, I don't think they necessarily, because they were both talented, I don't think they
could have necessarily not been anything without each other.
But that starts getting a little crystal ball, you know what I mean?
That's just kind of me assuming that, hey, these guys are both talented, they've done
great things on their own.
Who's to say they wouldn't eventually have gone on to do things?
But history being what it is, is that those two guys got together, childhood friends that
didn't play together.
You got to remember, Augie and, the story gets real gray and blurry.
Augie and Doug knew each other for years as childhood buddies from Augie's parents' grocery
store that my grandparents would shop at with Doug, my daddy, and Pop would go collect
his baseball cards.
And that was the big one there, is Augie would, and Augie will tell you these stories, Augie
would help Dad out with his baseball cards.
And so they formed this bond where Dad knew, hey man, my buddy Augie is where I can go
and score the baseball cards.
And you know, that's the Meyers owned the store, the grocery store, and that's where
the Psalms shop and, you know, their kid is all into the baseball cards.
And you know, you form, as kids, that's how you form these little bonds.
That was way before music or anything.
I think that tells you a lot about the relationship, is that if it was just formed basically on
a business thing of, let's just get these guys together to play music and that's it,
it might have been different.
But the fact is, is they did have a history together that was beyond that.
[Em] _ [E] _ _ That's exactly the reason, bringing it full circle, is to _ do just that, to take the people
who had supported Doug for so [A] long and celebrate with them and remember Doug's legacy and have
a good time and come out and dance and drink a beer to She's About a Move or whatever.
And there's also the people who didn't get to see it the first time, who maybe had turned
on to Doug just with all this recent activity of box sets and DVDs and stuff that we've
been doing, you know, with the estate.
And that's one thing, they're all valid and it's all great.
Turning on the new fans is important and taking care of the older fans is important too.
Friends, fans, whatever you want to call them.
So that's really what it's all about, is at the end of the day, the whole of the sum,
by doing all this stuff, you take the older fans, you take the newer fans and you kind
of build together like clay something really solid.
And that's the thing about the people who like real music, they tend to really stick with it.
It's not fad music, you know.
We all, dude, I mean we all have guilty pleasures of liking ear candy.
It's okay.
People try to be too cool musically, I only listen to jazz, I only listen to this.
Okay, well that sounds boring to me, you know.
I'm not trying to be a drag, but if you only listen to just blues and nothing else, really?
I mean, I love blues, I love this, I love that, but you know, just speaking personally
for me, it's like music's like emotions, isn't it?
You know, you're not always in the same mood all the time.
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