Augie Meyers Biography

Augie Meyers Biography

August "Augie" Meyers (b. 31 May 1940 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American musician. He is best known as keyboard-player with the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados. In the early 1960s Meyers was, with Doug Sahm, a founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet. His Vox organ was a main ingredient in the sound of the quintet, as heard in hits like She’s About A Mover (1964), Mendocino (1969), Nuevo Laredo (1970) and many others. Later Meyers also played on many of Sahms solo albums and released his own solo records, also in Tex-Mex-style. In the 1990s Meyers was, with Doug Sahm, Flaco Jimenez and Freddy Fender, a member of Tex-Mex-supergroup Texas Tornados. He was also sought after as a studio musician. He worked, amongst others, with Bob Dylan on his albums Time Out of Mind (1997) and Love and Theft (2001). In 2005 he played on John Hammond's cd covering Tom Waits songs, "Wicked Grin," and toured with Hammond. Meyers lives in Bulverde, Texas. Since the 1970s he runs his own record labels from there, namely The Texas Re-Cord Company, Superbeet Records and White Boy Records.