If you want to know what I like about music, listen to this album.
My sum knowledge of Sir Douglas Quintet to this point:
1. "She's About a Mover"
2. Doug Sahm was in the Texas Tornados
3. and he lent his guest vocals on Anodyne by the boys from Belleville
Wikipedia has it right when they say "[o]verall, the quintet were exponents of good-times music". This is a bar band's bar band - nothing too original here, but such a genuinely fun take on the covers.
We've got "A Whiter Shade of Pale", "Mr. Pitiful" (with the wisdom not to try to sound like Gary Booker or Otis Redding), "Please, Please, Please", (ditto JB), fellow Tornado's "Wasted Days & Wasted Nights" and two hoary chestnuts made fresh: "Night Train" & "Kansas City".
Top that with a handful of originals including "Stoned Faces Don't Lie" (forget your Rainy Day Women, this should be the stoner National Anthem), the title track, and the aforementioned "Mover" and you have a party album sure to please everyone waiting on burgers in the back yard this summer.
I stumbled onto to this thanks to Tom Moon's 1,000 Recording You Need to Hear Before You Die. I've worked my way back from Tres Hobres into the S artists, limited only by Spotify's catalog. It's not all diamonds though - I also listened to Slayer's Reign of Blood yesterday. Yuck. Still I'll be happy to share any other hidden gems.
* The Mendicino listed in Wikipedia does not match the one on Spotify. This seems more of a Greatest Hits. I'm sure the original is wonderful too.
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