| Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm | |
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| Studio album by Various Artists | |
| Released | March 24, 2009 [1] |
| Recorded | 2008 and 2009 |
| Genre | Rock, Tex-Mex |
| Label | Vanguard |
| Producer | Bill Bentley Stephen Brower David Katznelson Shawn Sahm |
Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm is a 2009 tribute album to the late Doug Sahm, released on Vanguard Records.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| The Austin Chronicle | [3] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ [4] |
| Los Angeles Times | [5] |
| PopMatters | 7/10 [6] |
Sahm died of a heart attack, in Taos, New Mexico, on November 18, 1999, days after his 58th birthday. As co-producer Bill Bentley [7] recalls, "Shawn Sahm and I tried to do a tribute album right after Doug Sahm died in 1999, but it was just too soon. Ten years later, we found a partner in Vanguard Records, through David Katznelson, and it all fell together." [8]
The album, described as "a warm evocation of Sahm's spirit and sensibility, how he effortlessly encompassed almost every element of Texan music", was favourably reviewed:
According to another reviewer,
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