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Get a Life (Doug Sahm album)

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Get a Life
Studio album by
Released1998
Recorded1998
GenreCountry
Length36:19[1]
LabelMunich Records
ProducerMike 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
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]

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]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Get a Life"Doug Sahm4:21
2."St. Olav's Gate"Tom Russell4:28
3."Goodbye San Francisco - Hello Amsterdam"Doug Sahm3:31
4."Give Back The Key To My Heart"Doug Sahm3:12
5."Malmö Mama"Doug Sahm4:34
6."On Bended Kee"Bobby Charles2:05
7."Louis Riel"Doug Sahm3:50
8."The Ballad of Davy Crockett"George Bruns, Thomas W. Blackburn3:28
9."Sooner Or Later"R.L. Flick3:49
10."Invitation to the Blues"Roger Miller3:01

Personnel

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b "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. Open access icon
  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. Open access icon
  5. ^ a b 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. Open access icon
  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. Open access icon