Chords for The Texas Tornados - Interview & Acoustic

[G] _ Who's to blame, _ _ Senorita, who's to blame? _ _ _ _
Who's to blame, _ _ Senorita, who's to [D] blame? _ _ _ _
She [G] said, you're my favorite muchacho, _ [C] all the other guys are so _ macho.
_ [G] Then she went and [D] threw it all [G] down the drain.
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Who's to [G] blame, _ _ Senorita, _ who's to blame?
People throw around the term supergroup, but there's no other way to describe the combination of musicians that come together as the Texas Tornadoes.
Este Bueno is the new album.
It means [D] it's good, and it is. _ _
She [G] said, I want to meet Flaco.
[C] Well, he's my favorite muchacho.
_ [G] Then she went [D] and threw it all [G] down the drain.
[D] Following the deaths of Tornadoes [C] co-founders Doug Somm in 99 and Freddy Fender in [G] 2006,
the remaining members of the quartet, Augie Myers and Flaco Jimenez, have stayed active with numerous solo projects.
[Bm] Now Augie [Am] and [D] Flaco have reunited the Texas [C] Tornadoes with the only musician who could stand in Doug Somm's [G] shoes, his son, Sean Somm.
Sean, your [D] dad passed away in 1999, _ and Tornado Freddy Fender died in 2006.
[E] I don't think anyone [G]
expected that we'd hear the Texas Tornadoes ever again.
[C] How did the idea come about for the band to reunite with [G] this lineup?
Well, I played with Augie and [D] Dad since I was 13.
[G] So naturally, you know, I continued to play with Augie, and we'd always done [C] our little thing together.
And it just seemed like a natural progression.
I think [G] one thing led to another.
I think eventually probably Augie and Flaco and Freddy talked and said,
Hey, you know, _ _ Sean's [D] got the vibe.
We can all get together and maybe do it.
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_ [G] _ _ _ How _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ does it feel to be making music [G] with the son of your late musical partner?
Sometimes when we play, when Sean plays and I'm playing keyboards, if I close my eyes, I think there's Doug there.
My hair raises up in the back of my head.
He's [D] so much like Doug.
He must have [Dm] been vaccinated with some of Doug, you know, somewhere down [G] the line.
Like Augie just said, you know, I just [C] closed my eyes and I can feel that _ [G] same energy [D] that we had [G] when Freddy and [D] Doug was alive.
We _ [G] _
have the same groove.
Your dad used to go to my house, you know.
I remember going as a kid to your house on the Culture Saturday.
Oh man, I remember about this. _ _
[Am] Freddy was known [G] for his hits, Before the Next Teardrop [E] Falls, Wasted Days and Wasted Nights.
But this Freddy Fender song, let's listen to it.
The one you were talking about, If I Could Only.
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When I heard it, I _ _ immediately [D] _
knew it was special and I wanted [E] to keep it what I call [Ab] 1956.
_ [A] You know, I wanted to keep it old school because I thought that in my heart, I thought, man, this could be the [Em] last [D] of that [E] style of Freddy [D] Fender, you know, songs.
And it's the last song [E] you ever wrote?
I would probably say it was.
They don't make them like I like them.
And that song's on the album.
He was writing that one [A] too and he kept wanting me to sing it.
And I said, Freddy, he wanted me to sing it like him.
I said, Freddy, if you want me to sing it like you, you sing it.
And so he [E] finally did it on the album like that.
But he wrote that like two months, three months before we cut the album.
He's always loved [Am] Augie's sense of humor with his songs.
And when I hear They Don't [A] Make Them Like I Like Them Anymore, I think there's a little Augie influence on that song because there's that sense of humor.
He always wanted Augie to sing it.
They don't make them like I like them anymore. _ _
They wouldn't even love you like [E] before. _
One day, yes.
One day, no.
They don't make them like I [A] like them anymore. _
They don't make them like I like them anymore. _ _
_ They don't like the kitchen or [E] the stove. _
They don't like to cook.
They'd rather read a book.
They don't make them like I like them [A] anymore.
In [Am] true Tornado fashion, the songs were a mixture of [A] things from the past and things
of [E] the new.
Everyone, me, Augie and Flaco, the whole band were way into it, the details.
We were in mastering right now and we were still [A] tweaking things into it, so that's how
much we care about this product.
And I think it shows at the end of the day.
Augie's vox playing on the money, Flaco's [E] on the money, Freddie's songs were great.
So that thing was apparent from the get-go to me, that everybody was there taking this
real seriously [A] and bringing their own game.
The new Texas Tornadoes album we're talking about, Esta Bueno, it's being released on Bismo Records.
That's a label [Em] run by Ray Benson, the 40-year [E] frontman of Asleep at the Wheel.
How and why did Ray and the [A] Tornadoes team?
How [G] Ray came about is what we did with the Tornado record is instead of getting a deal
and then doing the record, we decided, hey, why don't we do [C] the record that we want to do?
You know, let's not have any outside influences.
The record's going to be what the [G] four principals, me, Flaco, Augie and Freddie, want it to be.
Something kept just saying over and over, man, go to Ray.
When he said Ray Benson, I said, great, man, I was all [B] for it right away.
I said, [C] we go somewhere in New York or California that don't know [G] the way we live, what we breathe
and [C] everything, our music, it ain't [G] going to work.
So I said, let's just go with Ray and stay in Texas.
If something goes wrong, we're only 70 miles down the road instead of 5,000 miles or [C] 500 miles. _
Sugar blue, sugar blue, what you trying to do, sugar blue, don't you know I [G] love you? _
First you tied me up in ropes, then you filled up my holes, now you left me down crying in [C] chains. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] The music of the Texas Tornadoes is perhaps best heard [A] live, where the core members are
once again going to [E] be out on the road, backed by the musicians they toured with for years
and a couple of new additions.
Is everybody ready to hit the road?
Yeah, [A] you know, we've done a few warm up shows.
I'll tell you, the shows have been great.
_ And we've been doing pretty good sized shows, you know, a few thousand people, [Em] whatnot.
If that's [B] any indication of what's to [E] come, you know, I think we're on to something.
I think people are really accepting, you know, what it's all about, [A] which is a celebratory thing.
To me, this is all about celebrating the legacy of Doug and Freddie, as well as [E] Augie and
Flaco and the whole legacy of the band.
You know, it's not just kind of one dimensional.
To me, this is a celebratory thing all the way around, [A] of all these guys' legacy.
You know, they have a very important Texas legacy, you know, important legacy period.
They [E] don't make them like I like them [A] anymore. _
_ _ _ _ Thanks [D] to Augie, Flaco, Freddie, Doug and Sean, esta bueno, it's good.
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_ _ _ _ _ Used to be my lover, hidden under cover, now it's all [D] out in the open. _ _