“In the brazen spirit of the best garage rock, a music in which gumption and attitude mean more than craft and creativity, it represented a ruse by a band from San Antonio to grow long hair, wear ‘mod’ clothes, and pass itself off as the latest British sensation…The scheme succeeded, at least initially, despite the fact that two of the five were Chicanos (swarthier skinned than was typical of pastier British Invasion bands of the era), the singer’s yelp had a distinctively Texas twang, and the repetitive, telegraph-key insistence of the band’s signature Vox organ shared more with the accordion-laced two-step of the Tex-Mex cantina than with the buoyant guitar jangle of Liverpool’s Cavern Club” (Don McLeese, Popular Music and Society, October 2006).
Sir Douglas Quintet “She’s About a Mover”
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