Give Back The Key To My Heart (1976)

Written by : Doug Sahm
O: Sir Doug & The Texas Tornados  (Edsel)

Spring 1976 Sugar Hill Recording Studio, 5626 Brock St., Houston, TX – Doug Sahm aka Sir Doug and Texas Tornados (Doug Sahm [vcl/gt/fiddle/piano], Attwood G. Allen [vcl/rh gt], Uncle Mickey Moody [ac gt], Harry Hess [slide gt/steel], Jack barber [bass], Steve Rains [drums], Augie Meyers [piano/Vox/organ]. Producer: Huey P. Meaux)


From: the unofficial uncle tupelo archives

Give Back the Key to My Heart (Doug Sahm)
Doug Sahm has often been listed by Uncle Tupelo (and Brian Henneman) as one of their biggest influences. Before his death in 1999, his recording and performing career spanned almost 40 years, as a solo act and in the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornadoes. He played country, blues, Tex Mex, rock and whatever else suited his fancy. Jeff mentioned a few times in the early '90s that they had thought about organizing a Doug Sahm tribute record, but unfortunately it never came to be; after his death, Brian Henneman and the Bottle Rockets did record an album of Sahm's songs called, appropriately enough, Songs of Sahm. There are a couple of "best of" collections out there, including an excellent one on Mercury titled The Best of Doug Sahm and The Sir Douglas Quintet (Mercury 846-586-2). "Give Back the Key to My Heart" isn't on those compilations, and can only be found on his 1976 album Texas Rock for Country Rollers which was re-issued on CD by Demon/Edsel in 1997 (EDCD 535). Doug played and sang on UT's version on Anodyne.

But Doug Sahm recorded the song in 2001 for the album "Get a life".

Recordings i found:
1976 - Give Back The Key To My Heart - Sir Doug & The Texas Tornados
1993 - Give Back the Key to my Heart - Uncle Tupelo
1998 - Give Back the Key to my Heart - Doug Sahm
2002 - Give Back the Key to my Heart - Lisa Miller
2008 - Give Back the Key to my Heart - Dwight Yoakam

Wilco plays it often live.