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"Mendocino County Line" is a song written by Matt Serletic and Bernie Taupin, and recorded as a duet by American country music artists Willie Nelson and Lee Ann Womack. It was released in January 2002 as the lead-off single from Nelson's album The Great Divide. It was a Top 40 hit on the U.S. country chart, peaking at number 22.
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 song's lyrics include many colloquialisms and made-up words. The title itself is a pun; Zappa mispronounces Camarillo, the name of a city in California, to rhyme with brillo, "shining" or "brilliant" in Spanish. [2] The meaning of the song is open to different interpretations.
The album was panned for the excessively adult contemporary production. Pat Blashill of Rolling Stone said "Nelson is a performer who uses plain, powerful lyrics and a handsome but unvarnished voice to great effect. Much of that gets lost in the adult-contemporary production goop and heavenly choirs" of this release.
The website has received significant coverage in mainstream news for its discussions on certain songs. In July 2005, users fiercely debated the meanings of the lyrics to Coldplay's song, "Speed of Sound". [7] The News & Observer called SongMeaning's discussions on the meaning to the lyrics of 50 Cent's "Wanksta" particularly "illuminating". [8]
Mendocino Homeland is an extended play by the American punk rock band The Lookouts. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was released in 1989 through vocalist/guitarist Larry Livermore 's label Lookout! Records .
Nelson received a tape of the song from Saturday Night Live Band bassist Tony Garnier after performing on the show [11] in the mid to late 1980s. According to Sublette, "Willie took it from there" [6] though Nelson recently found that demo in a drawer among a stack of his own while recording unreleased songs for iTunes at his Spicewood, Texas, home studio.
The song has a 12-bar blues structure, and is essentially a rewrite of The Coasters’ 1957 hit, "Searchin'" The song was recorded in Houston, Texas at Gold Star Studios. [ 4 ] "She's About a Mover" was named the No. 1 Texas song by Texas Monthly , peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 5, 1965, [ 5 ] and at No. 15 on the UK ...