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
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