Mendocino [Import]

Sir The Douglas Quintet | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 2, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Smash
• ASIN: B00005B1PK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,053,330 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Whiter Shade Of Pale

2. Dynamite Woman

3. Kansas City

4. Stoned Faces Don't Lie

5. Mr Pitiful

6. Mendocino

7. Wasted Days And Wasted Nights

8. She's About A Mover

9. Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone

10. Nuevo Laredo

11. Stagger Lee

12. Pleasse Please Please

13. Texas Me

14. Grazy Arms

15. Night Train

16. Medley

Editorial Reviews

Dutch budget price compilation for the Tex-Mex/Rock & Roll act. Tracks include their big hit 'She's About A Mover' & 'Mendocino'. 1999 release. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars tex mex supreme, October 28, 2003

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Frank M. Mckinney (Va) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mendocino (Audio CD)

I love the fact that Doug's producers wanted to name them the Sir Douglas Quintet so they would sound like an English group (the Beatles were hot then). This is about as far away from 60's pop-rock as you can get! Best Doug album ever and I've heard them all. Finally available on cd,thank you, thank you, my old record is sounding pretty bad from repeated plays over 25 years. Mendocino and She's About a Mover were the hits, but Texas Me, Crossroads, Wanna Be Your Mama (I could go on & on) are the real stars here. Thanks, Doug. We miss you

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Absolute Classic, July 2, 2003

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"tamio888" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mendocino (Audio CD)

I remember the single, "Mendocino" when I was a hippie kid in the NY suburbs. I later moved to Austin and lived with this LP, every day. Now I have the CD. It is as soulful and buoyant and introspective and joyful as I recalled. It is not psychedelic - though it could be, I guess. Sir Doug was seminal to the revival and appreciation of Texas music in the 70s and this the precursor to and, maybe the best - certainly, the purest - manifestation of his vast body of work. We will miss him, but we have this recording to carry us through.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic, February 4, 2003

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"leeleedee" (Lexington, Kentucky

Cincinnati) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mendocino (Audio CD)

A classic. A concept album about liking Northern California but missing Texas. "I Don't Want" is perhaps the most instantly accessible tune Doug Sahm ever did; the title track is certainly one of the best takes on hippiedom ever; and so forth. Relaxed, soulful, all that. I'd rate this as the single best thing Doug Sahm ever did--the one to get if one's all you want. Contains his two best-known songs, "She's About a Mover" and "Mendocino." Originally came out, on Mercury, way back in 1969.