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Los Soupermen

Friday, May 5

Show: 8p | Doors: 7p

Tickets: $15

Los Soupermen, A Knickerbocker Tradition for Cinco de Mayo
playing Tex-Mex Music and Cowboy Country

Backbeat music that makes you Dance! San Antonio meets Bakersfield! From 96 Tears and She's About a Mover to driving a Longhorn Cadillac down the Streets of Bakersfield pursued by a Lonesome Fugitive! Sahm, Haggard, Buck & Hank and original cowboy music from Vince Thompson and Drew Townson!

This famous, new infamous, collection of super musicians that bands together on Cinco De Mayo to bring a touch of big Texas to little RI celebrates its 5th anniversary where it all started: May 5th, 2018 at the Knickerbocker Cafe.

To give a little name space to the original, Los Super Seven that featured south western ringers carrying forward a tradition they had pioneered with [Sir] Douglas Sahm, we give a nod to our Westerly origins by reflecting the local culinary tradition of sausage making in our spelling of Souper!

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The music traces from the origins of the Tex-Mex blend of tejano sounds and british invasion. Producer Huey P. Meaux is reputed to have shut himself up in the Wayfarer motel in San Antonio for three days with Beatles records and a case of Thunderbird Wine–emerging with the conclusion that the catch in this rock ad roll music was actually its backbeat commonality with Cajun two-step. He signed Doug Sahm and in 1965 released his TexMex forerunner "She's About a Mover" in 1965, further aligned with the British Invasions in dubbing the band: "Sir Douglas and the Quintet". Pa-Go-Go records of San Antonio followed a year later with the eccentric michigan based ? and the Mysterians organ driven hit: 96 Tears.

Add to this pedigree the cowboy image that Sahm cultivated and bring in the outlaw and bakersfield country with its own strong backbeat that was supplanting grand ole opry style in the late 50s and Los Soupermen have got dance after dance for you!

This has been a band of ringers from the get go, originally sporting a number of the Outliers nee Girls, Guns and Glory. The occasional latin flourish in singer/songwriter Ward Hayden's writing was the inspiration for creating this Southern New England ode to the San Antonio sound and we have added various traditional instrumentation from fiddle to trumpet to accordion to the Farfisa (this traveling organ was actually manufactured by an Accordion maker who read the writing on the wall as to what the more hip instrumentation of the 60s might look like). A couple years with the original lineup gave way to Covid, but we returned with the Los Texicanos lineup featuring Drew Townsen for Cinco de Mayo 2021, bringing with him his unparalled texas style songwriting. With Drew's departure for Florida, we have kept his music in the mix with our new Los Soupermen lineup featuring: Vince Thompson vocals, Bob Metzger on Guitar and Steel, fmr. Outlier Paul Dilley on Telecaster, charter member Rory Macleod on Bass, Steve Peck on Drums and our keyboard infusions have been courtesy of some of the best Southern New England has to offer: Sam Taber, Dickie Read and, for this years show, Ohan Heginhian.