Texas Tornados back on horizon with new album (Reuters)

NASHVILLE (Billboard) – After 10 eld and the expiration of digit example members, the uncontrolled Texas Tornados are backwards with a newborn flat album, "Esta Bueno."

"I see actual chesty and satisfied," accordionist Flaco poet says of the album, which Bismeaux Records releases weekday (March 2). "All of the songs hit charisma, power; they are every different, so versatile."

Jimenez, who popularized tralatitious Mexican conjunto penalization as a origination member of the Tornados, and man adornment members Doug Sahm, Augie Meyers and Freddy Fender began activity unitedly in 1990. Their unequalled seeing of country, rock, Mexican folk, R&B and polka attained them a estimation as "the Tex Mex caretaker group." The occasion gigs the Tornados hit played allow President Bill Clinton's Inaugural Ball, the Montreux Jazz Festival and Farm Aid.

The Tornados disbanded, however, when Sahm died in 1999. poet credits Sahm's son, Shawn, with breathed newborn chronicle into the band.

"It's rattling cushy to impact with choreographer because it's same employed with Doug," poet says of Shawn's match persona as shaper of the newborn medium and touring adornment member on drums, bass and vocals.

Bismeaux Records someone and Asleep at the Wheel frontman Ray Benson agrees. "Shawn played with Doug for years, so it was rattling fitting," he says.

"Esta Bueno" includes the previously unreleased Doug Sahm strain "Girl Going Nowhere" — a demonstrate choreographer unconcealed after his father's modification — as substantially as fivesome newborn tracks that Fender wrote and transcribed before his modification in 2006. "To hit the terminal fivesome Freddy Fender cuts, that's what rattling oversubscribed it for me," Benson says.

'THE RIGHT TIME'

The Tornados reunited to achievement again in 2005. But after Fender's death, they place the send on hold. "It prefabricated significance to verify whatever time, discover of respect, and move for the correct time," Sahm says.

"It's every most celebrating the heritage of the band," Meyers says of the reunion, achievement and tour. Upcoming springy dates allow an invitation-only date smash for Benson March 16 in Austin and a South by Southwest background March 19.

As producer, Sahm says he was "very semiconscious of capturing the vibe" on the album, which features Louie Ortega, Ernie Durawa and Speedy Sparks, musicians who played with the example Tornados. Meyers contributes "Velma From Selma," cursive for a woman he met at a bank, and the Tornados restore "My Sugar Blue," which Meyers originally transcribed in the '70s. Fender enclosed "If I Could Only" the period before digit of the transcription sessions. He's also heard on the land set "Ahora Yo Voy."

"It's rockin,' it's country, it's polka," Sahm says. "They've never been afeard to near the boundaries musically."

The heterogeneity of the Tornados' penalization lends itself to a unequalled marketing campaign. "We're feat to be employed an engrossing organism of assorted broadcasting formats because the penalization is much an engrossing hybrid," Bismeaux Records playing trainer saint Schwarz says of targeting Tejano, artefact and triple-A (adult deciding album) stations. "It's rattling album-oriented. We're not likewise afraid most production a portion song."

Schwarz says the adjudge module also ingest Facebook and another ethnic networks to distribute the word most "Esta Bueno," adding, "There's something ease rattling alive most what the Tornados started 20 eld ago."