Mendocino is the second album[6] by country rock group The Sir Douglas Quintet, released in April 1969 on Smash Records. The release of the album was expedited as the result of the success of the title song, which peaked at No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during a fifteen-week stay in early 1969. The album peaked at No. 81 on the Billboard 200 charts.[7] Neon Records re-released the album in 2001 and 2008.
| Mendocino | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | April 1969 | |||
| Recorded | Columbus Recorders, Sentinel Building, San Francisco, CA[1] Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, CA[2][3] | |||
| Genre | Tex-Mex, country rock | |||
| Length | 31:05 | |||
| Label | Smash | |||
| Producer | Amigos de Musica,[4] assisted by Frank Morin | |||
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| Singles from Mendocino | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   link |
| Rolling Stone | (positive) [5] |
Track listing edit
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Mendocino" | Doug Sahm | 2:40 |
| 2. | "I Don't Want" | Sahm | 3:45 |
| 3. | "I Wanna Be Your Mama Again" | Sahm | 3:10 |
| 4. | "At the Crossroads" | Sahm | 4:30 |
| 5. | "If You Really Want Me to I'll Go" | Delbert McClinton | 2:35 |
| 6. | "And It Didn't Even Bring Me Down" | Martin Fierro, Frank Morin, Sahm | 2:30 |
| 7. | "Lawd, I'm Just a Country Boy in This Great Big Freaky City" | Sahm | 2:45 |
| 8. | "She's About a Mover" | Sahm | 3:20 |
| 9. | "Texas Me" | Augie Meyers, Morin, John Perez, Sahm | 2:35 |
| 10. | "Oh, Baby, It Just Don't Matter" | Sahm | 3:15 |
Personnel edit
- The Sir Douglas Quintet
- Doug Sahm – vocals, guitar, pedal steel guitar, fiddle
- Frank Morin – vocals, horns
- Harvey Kagan – bass guitar
- Augie Meyers – organ, piano, keyboards
- John Perez – drums
References edit
- ^ "Columbus Recorders". MusicBrainz. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Lynne Hughes 1969 Freeway Gypsy". SAHMigo.com. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Amigo Studios". MusicBrainz. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
- ^ The album's liner notes give official production credit to "Amigos de Musica." However, on original LP copies of the album (Mercury/Smash Records, catalog no. SRS 67115), an arrow pointing at a photo of Doug Sahm indicates that "Amigos de Musica" is Sahm.
- ^ Ward, Edmund (17 May 1969). "Records". Rolling Stone (33). San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.: 17.
- ^ "Mendocino". Allmusic. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
- ^ "Charts & Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
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