Get a Life (Doug Sahm album)

Get a Life
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
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.^[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]

Quick facts Studio album by Doug Sahm, Released ...

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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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Get a Life"	Doug Sahm	4:21
2.	"St. Olav's Gate"	Tom Russell	4:28
3.	"Goodbye San Francisco - Hello Amsterdam"	Doug Sahm	3:31
4.	"Give Back The Key To My Heart"	Doug Sahm	3:12
5.	"Malmö Mama"	Doug Sahm	4:34
6.	"On Bended Kee"	Bobby Charles	2:05
7.	"Louis Riel"	Doug Sahm	3:50
8.	"The Ballad of Davy Crockett"	George Bruns, Thomas W. Blackburn	3:28
9.	"Sooner Or Later"	R.L. Flick	3:49
10.	"Invitation to the Blues"	Roger Miller	3:01

Get a Life (Doug Sahm album)

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