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Get a Life
Studio album by Doug Sahm
Released	1998
Recorded	1998
Genre	Country
Length	36:19
Label	Munich Records
Producer	Mike Stewart, Billy Stull, Doug Sahm and Bob Flick
Doug Sahm chronology
The Last Real Texas Blues Band Featuring Doug Sahm (1995) Get a Life (1998) The Return of Wayne Douglas (1999)
S.D.Q 98'
Cover for the release in the United States

Get a Life is a 1998 album by Doug Sahm released by the Dutch label Munich Records. 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. Sahm wrote the liner notes for the album. The recordings featured The Gourds, as well as Augie Meyers. 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".

The release was credited to Doug Sahm - A.K.A. The Texas Tornado. Watermelon Records released the album as S.D.Q. 98' in the United States in October 1998. The Austin American-Statesman gave the album three stars out of five, and called it a "happily jumbled affair". 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."

Track listing

Personnel

• Doug Sahm - vocals, guitar, fiddle, bajo sexto, steel guitar, hammond organ, piano
• Augie Meyers - vocals, accordion, Vox organ, piano
• Shawn Sahm - guitar
• The Gourds (Kevin Russel, Jimmy Smith, Claude Bernard) - vocals
• Clay Meyers - drums, maracas
• Ernie Durawa - drums
• George Rains - drums
• Keith Langford - drums
• Rocky morales - tenor saxophone
• Mike O'Dowd - tenor saxophone
• Tommy Detamore - pedal steel guitar, guitar
• Kevin Russell - guitar, mandolin
• Speedy Sparks - bass
• Jimmy Smith - bass

Studio:

• Doug Sahm - producer, arrangements
• Bob Flick - producer, arrangements
• Mike Stewart - producer, sound engineer
• Billy Stull - producer, sound engineer
• Bobby Arnold - sound engineer
• Gary Higganbotham - sound engineer
• Boo McLoed - sound engineer
• P.T. Huston - sound engineer
• Debora Hanson - production coordinator

References

1. ^ "Doug Sahm - Get a Life". AllMusic. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
2. Chamberlain, Adrian (July 10, 1998). "Sahm Put the Tex in Mex". Times Colonist. Vol. 140, no. 209. p. C5. Retrieved March 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. [REDACTED]
3. Get a Life (CD). Munich Records. MUSA 505.
4. Terrel, Steve (November 20, 1999). "Late Texas musician had complained of ill health". The Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved March 8, 2021. [REDACTED]
5. ^ Chadbourne, Eugene. "S.D.Q. 98'". AllMusic. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
6. Statesman music staff (August 28, 1997). "Street Soundz". Austin American-Statesman. Vol. 127, no. 34. p. XL - 16. Retrieved March 9, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
7. Corcoran, Michael (October 20, 1998). "A green apple for 'Faculty'". Austin American-Statesman. Vol. 128, no. 86. Retrieved March 9, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. [REDACTED]
8. Riemenschneider, Chris (October 20, 1998). "S.D.Q. 98'". Austin American-Statesman. Vol. 128, no. 86. p. E2. Retrieved March 9, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. [REDACTED]

• 1998 albums
• Doug Sahm albums