The Twelve Days of Gheorghemas: Day Five

 On the fifth day of Gheorghemas, Big Gheorghe gave to me:

Five musicians from San Antonio known as the Sir Douglas Quintet
A four-part Japanese life strategy (as told by our man in the OBX)
Three 80's Baseball Sports Looks
Too Many Entries
and a Cameo That Will Go Down in History

I recently heard this song on the radio:

And I thought it was new song by the Black Keys and that they were getting back to their old Rubber Factory sound.  But it wasn't!  It was the Sir Douglas Quintet.  I know this because the DJ said so, but not until after he followed it up with this diddy:

I never heard of them before.  Wikipedia says they're from San Antonio.  Spotify has at least 105 of their songs available to stream and I dig almost all of them.  It's hard to boil down their sound.  There are always varying degrees of country twang, psychedelia, drunkenness, and raw elemental rock and roll.  That said, some are funky:

Sometimes they sound like a TexMex Beach Boys:

Other times they sound like a southern fried Beatles:

They cover torch songs too:

They even do something approaching yacht rock:

My favorites have that real southern rock sound:

So go explore their catalog and find some gems to spin on the hifi while distantly celebrating the holiday season.  Merry Gheorghemas!