| Get a Life | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Doug Sahm |
| Cover: | Get a Life - Doug Sahm.jpg |
| Released: | 1998 |
| Recorded: | 1998 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 36:19[1] |
| Label: | Munich Records |
| Producer: | Mike Stewart, Billy Stull, Doug Sahm and Bob Flick |
| Prev Title: | The Last Real Texas Blues Band Featuring Doug Sahm |
| Prev Year: | 1995 |
| Next Title: | The Return of Wayne Douglas |
| Next Year: | 1999 |
Get a Life is a 1998 album by Doug Sahm released by the Dutch label Munich Records.[2] The tracks were recorded in Austin and San Marcos, Texas, Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles, California. The producers of the tracks included Sahm, Mike Stewart, Billy Stull and Bob Flick.[3] Sahm wrote the liner notes for the album.[4] The recordings featured The Gourds, as well as Augie Meyers.[5] Sahm met The Gourds as he performed at a music festival in Belgium in 1997. Sahm approached the band after he heard them sing a cover of his original "At the Crossroads".[6]
The release was credited to Doug Sahm - A.K.A. The Texas Tornado.[1] Watermelon Records released the album as S.D.Q. 98' in the United States in October 1998.[7] The Austin American-Statesman gave the album three stars out of five, and called it a "happily jumbled affair".[8] Meanwhile, AllMusic rated it with four-and-a-half stars out of five. Critic Eugene Chadbourne felt that "musically there is enough (on the album) to create a tidal wave."[5]
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