You gotta the love the premise of this impending Mike Doughty tour. I will now defer to the press release:This fall, Mike will head out on a tour called The Question Jar Show. It'll feature Mike, accompanied by Andrew "Scrap" Livingston, playing requests yelled out from the audience, slipping in some songs from the new album, and dipping into The Question Jar -- a big jar into which the audienc...
..when you are constantly thinking in song lyrics. I was reading Lemontwist's post about her job search and a line from the M Doughty song 'American Car' came to me instantly...my mind ties every situatino to a song or a lryic...it may be a sickness. But I like it.'My circus train pulls through the nightfull of lions and trapeze artistsi am done with elephants and clownsi want to run away and j...
Mike Doughty will support his new album Golden Delicious (released today February 19th) with a six week tour this spring. The tour kicks off in Northhampton, MA on March 12th. Before the tour, Doughty will debut his solo DJ side project DJ Mikey Dough with a special set at New York's Knitting Factory on February 22nd.Also available this week with the release of Golden Delicious is Doughty's fre...
Former Soul Coughing lead singer Mike Doughty will release his second solo LP for ATO Records Golden Delicious on February 19th, 2008. For the album the avid "blogger":http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/ /musician worked with Grammy winning producer Dan Wilson (Dixie Chicks) and his solo touring band. Doughty, who found mainstream fame after his track "Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Wel...
I Just Want The Girl In The Blue Dress To Keep In Dancing
Mike Doughty, journeyman, skeletal poet, former member of Soul Coughing.More on that journey later, but for now let me say how much the failure of his latest record, Golden Delicious, released on Dave Matthews’s ATO record label, stems from the first impression gained when we look at his arched eyebrow and that sepia toned shot of him and a golden delicious apple.His MySpace caption says of Gol.
For Mike Doughty. I love the lazy vocalizations and the grittiness of his voice. Always good jams, especially for bitter times.I'm about to move into a new place, but I'm going to be sad to leave the place I'm living in now. It was a short voyage into apartment living and, though I've decided I don't like Florida apartments, I enjoyed my roommates. Things weren't perfect from the start, but we ...
I hate having to write a minimum of ten words; some songs should be allowed to speak for themselves. I hate it when you ready to get to it and the person introducing just keeps going on and on about stuff that you could really give a shite about, am I right? and their like this is what I think, and I like this thing because this thing happened to me once, and you're like, I'm so sure just shut ...
Mike Doughty on going to 12 step meetings around the world, and learning German:"All I can really say in German (that's pertinent) is something like: I did lots of drugs, I hated myself, I didn't want to die, I love life, I am happy now."http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/
working this evening I threw in an old mix that I had burned for a girlfriend some time back.wasn't sure how I'd feel about it with all the old thoughts about her, et al. but I'm happy to announce that the mix is still fantastic and I was able to enjoy it without depressed/angered thoughts. in fact, I got some damn fine work accomplished while it was playing!so, being as it was a triumphantly ...
As a teenager I was a pretty big fan of low rockers Soul Coughing. Few bands had anything that came close to their bottom heavy, groovy, alt rock. Since the break-up of the band lead singer Mike Doughty has been forging a solo career of his own.On October 6th Doughty is coming out with his third full length solo album Sad Man Happy Man.Here's a look at the track list for the album:Nectarine (