Doug Sahm, Asleep At the Wheel, Bob Wills: I Hear Miles and Miles of Texas

THE CHILDE Harold could have billed it as a mini-folk festival. Mini 'cause only two acts appeared, Doug Sahm and his Texas Tornadoes on a Thursday and Asleep At The Wheel the following night. A folk festival, nonetheless 'cause their performances revealed a Catholicism of tastes and styles that was as big and broad as their musical home, Texas. There was enough specifically Texan and generically American musical heritage floating around the Childe Harold's narrow walls on those two nights to fill the doctoral dissertations of an army of musicologists.