Mendocino (album)

Mendocino
Mendocino
Studio album by The Sir Douglas Quintet
Released	April 1969
Recorded	Columbus Recorders, San Francisco, CA and; Amigo Studios
Genre	Tex-Mex, country rock
Length	31:05
Label	Smash
Producer	Amigos de Musica, assisted by Frank Morin
The Sir Douglas Quintet chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Rolling Stone	(positive) ^[2]

Mendocino is the second album^[3] 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.^[4] Neon Records re-released the album in 2001 and 2008.

Track listing[]

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[]

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[]

^ 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. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. (33): 17.
^ "Mendocino". Allmusic. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
^ "Charts & Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 22 July 2011.

External links[]

Allmusic – The Sir Douglas Quintet (biography)

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[1] 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.

[2] Ward, Edmund (17 May 1969). "Records". Rolling Stone. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. (33): 17.

[3] "Mendocino". Allmusic. Retrieved 22 July 2011.

[4] "Charts & Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 22 July 2011.

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