SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Josh Baca honors his musical brothers with his accordion and through his group \u201cJosh Baca & the Hot Tamales.\u201d<\/p>\n
In between his set at the Westside San Antonio bar Jaime\u2019s Place, he proposed a toast to two Grammy-winning giants who passed away in the last seven months.<\/p>\n
\u201cAugie Meyers and Flaco Jimenez, pa arriba, pa abajo, pa\u2019l centro y pa dentro,\u201d Baca said before drinking his shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Baca shared the stage with Jimenez and Meyers. They were his friends and mentors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI learned the Augie Meyers rhythm on the Vox organ. Everybody in this life don\u2019t understand it,\u201d Baca said, holding his Horner accordion. \u201cEverybody thinks he was just going \u2018cha-cha-cha-cha.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Baca is talking about the unique sound from Meyers\u2019 Vox Continental organ. Meyers, alongside Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet, always brought Tex-Mex flair. Whether they were playing rock, blues or zydeco or on major stages like American Bandstand, Meyers stayed true to his San Antonio roots.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCause Augie and Doug were Eastsiders, Southeast-siders, still Southside,\u201d Joe Trevi\u00f1o said of the two San Antonio musicians, who grew up in predominately Black and brown neighborhoods. \u201cThey are like Southside white boys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trevi\u00f1o, who owns Blue Cat Studios, produced Meyers\u2019 last album and says the late artist understood the culture because he grew up with conjunto, German and rock music.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey created this caldo, this roux. It spawned a legion of imitators, but they got it right,\u201d Trevi\u00f1o said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He says that\u2019s why Sahm and Meyers paired perfectly with Jimenez and Freddy Fender to form the Tex-Mex supergroup Texas Tornados, with whom Meyers captured his first Grammy award.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meyers wrote a song known as the San Antonio national anthem: \u201cHey Baby, Que Paso?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meyers also had a major role in making Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cTime Out of Mind” album, which won a Grammy award for Album of the Year in 1998. Dylan mentioned Meyers during his Grammy speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite massive success, Baca says Meyers always paid it forward to the next generation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I learned from Flaco Jimenez and Augie Meyers is be who you are, don\u2019t fake it,\u201d Baca said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tex-Mex rock artist Garrett T. Capps was another friend of Meyers, who learned a lot from the late musician. Capps\u2019 recently released album, \u201cI Still Love San Antone,\u201d has two Augie Meyers features.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI try to kind of carry the flag for progressive country music from South Texas\u2026 Tex-Mex music or whatever is, there is not right or wrong way to do it,\u201d Capps said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Capps and Baca are keeping the Meyers sound alive in their own unique way.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cJust thinking about Augie, his music will live on forever, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d Capps said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Josh Baca honors his musical brothers with his accordion and through his group \u201cJosh Baca…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14209,65180,1570,14210,6294,223,82,84,83,27,26986,1569,835],"class_list":["post-223153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-app-human-interest","tag-app-latest-human-interest-stories","tag-ctv","tag-human-interest","tag-jose-arredondo","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-editors-picks","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}