Episode 471: Mike Doughty
RiYL PodcastJuly 31, 202100:49:05

Episode 471: Mike Doughty

The way Mike Doughty tells it, it’s a bit of a minor miracle Soul Coughing lasted for eight years. It was long enough, however, to generate three LPs, a handful of alternative rock radio hits and enough stories to fill a few memoirs.

Attempts to reunite have, predictably, fallen short, but Doughty has carved a path as an extremely profilic singer songwriter, culminating in last year’s Ghost of Vroom 2 EP.

A collaboration with Andrew "Scrap" Livingston produced by Beastie Boy mainstay Mario Caldato Jr., the project finds the duo excited exploring new shades of the "deep slacker jazz” pioneered by his long bygone band.

Doughty returns to the show to discuss the new project, his most recent memoir and the pandemic year.