Get a Life (Doug Sahm album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Get a Life

| type = Album

| artist = Doug Sahm

| cover = Get a Life - Doug Sahm.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1998

| recorded = 1998

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Country

| length = 36:19{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/get-a-life-mr0001058486|title=Doug Sahm - Get a Life|work=AllMusic|accessdate=March 8, 2021}}

| 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

| misc = {{extra album cover

| header = S.D.Q 98'

| image = S.D.Q. 98' - Doug Sahm.jpg

| caption = 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.{{cite news|author=Chamberlain, Adrian|date=July 10, 1998|title=Sahm Put the Tex in Mex|page=C5|work=Times Colonist|volume=140|number=209|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72976510/|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=March 8, 2021}} {{open access}} 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.{{cite AV media|publisher=Munich Records|title=Get a Life|id=MUSA 505|type=CD}} Sahm wrote the liner notes for the album.{{cite news|author=Terrel, Steve|date=November 20, 1999|title=Late Texas musician had complained of ill health|work=The Santa Fe New Mexican|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72976927/|accessdate=March 8, 2021}} {{open access}} The recordings featured The Gourds, as well as Augie Meyers.{{cite web|author=Chadbourne, Eugene|title=S.D.Q. 98'|work=AllMusic|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sdq-98-mw0000043552|accessdate=March 9, 2021}} 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".{{cite news|author=Statesman music staff|date=August 28, 1997|title=Street Soundz|work=Austin American-Statesman|volume=127|number=34|page=XL - 16|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73055640/|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=March 9, 2021}}

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.{{cite news|author=Corcoran, Michael|date=October 20, 1998|title=A green apple for 'Faculty'|work=Austin American-Statesman|volume=128|number=86|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72985906/|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=March 9, 2021}} {{open access}} The Austin American-Statesman gave the album three stars out of five, and called it a "happily jumbled affair".{{cite news|author=Riemenschneider, Chris|date=October 20, 1998|title=S.D.Q. 98'|work=Austin American-Statesman|volume=128|number=86|p=E2|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72985881/|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=March 9, 2021}} {{open access}} 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."