Name: Los Soupermen
Start: 2025-05-11T17:00:00-04:00
Location: The Knickerbocker Music Center

Los Soupermen
Playing Tex-Mex Music and Cowboy Country
SUNDAY, May 11
Show: 5p | Doors: 4:30p
Tickets: $15
($3 Service Charge Included With Online Tickets. All sales are final, no ticket refunds or exchanges. Seats are on a first-come, first-serve basis, and seats are not guaranteed with ticket purchase.)
Inspired by the lilting mariachi tones of several Ward Hayden & the Outliers nee Girls, Guns and Glory originals, this tribute to Doug Sahm and the Texas Tornados and other outlaws recalls how derivative Texmex music was of the British Invasion beat. Coming as contemporaries of the Beatles, Sir Douglas and the Quintet were the hazy vision of popular music seen through several cases of MD 20-20 in a Texas motel room by producer Heuy Meaux and quickly hit the charts in 1966 with She's About a Mover amidst the parallel success of the one-hit wonder 96 Tears. The sound came to rest in San Antonio and we've got the same question: "Anybody Going"?
In no small way, this is also a tribute to the tribute. Sahm's music and energy have been kept alive by his Texas collaborators through the continuation of the Tejano collective Los Super Seven formed just before Sahm's passing. RI and Texas have always had a musical connection and with a nod to the original but to distinguish our version that began at the Knickerbocker Cafe in 2018 we pay homage to both spicy texmex music and to Westerly's spicy culinary heritage of Soupy sausage with Los Soupermen.
The Knickerbocker will be filled with dancers and listeners alike for this annual tradition; this night featuring the incomparable vocals of Pat Halpin of the 351s with a krewe of Boston outlaws and Rory Macleod on bass who arranged this project and himself played behind Doug Sahm in Austin when that 'Cosmic Cowboy' hopped on stage with virtually every band! Hop on to the dance floor with us.
Yes, it's mothers day, so once you go out for brunch, bring your mom to cut the rug!