A nice little surprise

Gina informed me a couple of weeks ago that Mike Doughty's new CD was being released today (she figured it out when a 27 Jennifers ad showed up on the screen after a vox post she made). 

With all the craziness in our lives right now, we had failed to notice that my (our?) favorite artist was releasing a new disc. 

Talk about a nice little surprise.  I'll be picking up our copy after work today.

Mike Doughty CD...finally

Date Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:35 AM
From "Mike Doughty HQ"
Subject: HAUGHTY MELODIC out May 3!

A note from Mike Doughty:

Hi, People. At this point, after years of threatening and teasing about a fully-realized solo record coming out (who do I think I am, Axl Rose?!), my ATO debut, HAUGHTY MELODIC, is done at last. It'll be released on May 3rd.

I've been working on it since December of 2002, when I first flew out to Dan Wilson's place in Minnesota for what was supposed to be a weekend-long writing session, and realized that he should produce the album. For two years, I flew out there whenever he had a little time -- for five days, a week, two weeks, whatever he could spare -- and did a song or two, or added some instruments. It kept growing and changing, and at last I have something that I think is really beautiful.

So I wrote a bunch of songs about yearning and redemption and happiness and hope, and Dan and I concieved this sound, a very colorful, ornamented sound that combined melancholia and psychedelia. We got a bunch of fantastic musicians from Minneapolis and New York to make it happen.

A chance encounter with Dave Matthews, an old friend, at Bonnaroo 2004 resulted in me being signed to his label, ATO. I couldn't be happier -- ATO is a good bunch of solid, artist-oriented people.

Mike

HAUGHTY MELODIC tracklist:

01. Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well
02. Unsingable Name
03. Madeline and Nine
04. Busting Up A Starbucks
05. White Lexus
06. American Car
07. Tremendous Brunettes
08. I Hear The Bells
09. Sunken-Eyed Girl
10. Grey Ghost
11. His Truth Is Marching On
12. Your Misfortune