Mendocino (album) explained

Mendocino
Type:	Album
Artist:	The Sir Douglas Quintet
Cover:	Mendocino album cover.jpg
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
Prev Title:	Sir Douglas Quintet + 2 = Honkey Blues
Prev Year:	1968
Next Title:	1+1+1=4
Next Year:	1970

Mendocino is the second album^[5] 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.^[6] Neon Records re-released the album in 2001 and 2008.

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

External links

• [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5441/biography|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic – The Sir Douglas Quintet (biography)]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Columbus Recorders . . 13 September 2022.
2. Web site: Lynne Hughes 1969 Freeway Gypsy . SAHMigo.com . 13 September 2022.
3. Web site: Amigo Studios . . 13 September 2022.
4. 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.
5. Web site: Mendocino. Allmusic. 22 July 2011.
6. Web site: Charts & Awards. Allmusic. 22 July 2011.