Just a quick note to say I’m doing some shows with Low, my friends from back in the back-in-the, in June. I’m very jazzed about it–they’re amazing, and it’s been a long, long time since last we toured together.

The shows are:

6/17 – Washington DC http://bit.ly/11vZERW
6/18 – Pittsburgh, PA http://ticketf.ly/XRBiUE
6/19 – Brooklyn, NY http://bit.ly/Z3GzHi
6/20 – Hamden, CT http://ticketf.ly/17AKVdw
6/21 – Philadelphia, PA http://ticketf.ly/XRBp2q

Hope you attend. Yeah!

Mike

So, this is weird: I’m doing an album reimagining Soul Coughing songs.

And I’m jumping into crowd-funding: I’m asking for your help in making it.

My best explanation is here, in a five-minute video of me recording the album, and talking about it: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/mikedoughty

I’m doing this through PledgeMusic: if you pledge, you can get (among other things): your names in the credits of the album; a tweet, monthly, in which I praise you lavishly; my extensive collection of mugs that I’ve accumulated in years of touring; you can be video’d smashing the (warped, beyond-repair) guitar I recorded “Sad Man Happy Man” with.

You’ll also get access to mini-documentaries on the recording process (non-pledgers will get to see 30-second trailers of the mini-doc), and exclusive videos of acoustic versions of songs that won’t be on the album (non-pledgers will get to see acoustic versions of the songs that will be).

What a weird trip to embark on! Hope you come with.

Mike

Hey! I done made another musical film, directed by the great Meg Skaff, for the song “Sunshine”, in which I speak/rap/spiel between samples of a ghostly, emotional John Denver.

See here: http://youtu.be/bP9TAc8rPl0

John Denver’s estate was surprisingly stoked about this use of his voice–I really thought they’d find it too bizarre. And it’s an unusually sincere love song, for me, but, it’s still me, so it’s still weird.

We shot it in Meg’s basement in Bushwick, with the inimitable Andrew “Scrap” Livingston providing comical sidekickery, sign-language interpretation by Nikki Perkins, and myself totally failing to imitate her interpretations of my lyrics.

Additionally, there’s reams of reels of discarded film, which Scrap and I destroy, artfully. The film may or may not have been obtained in sketchy circumstances. Please keep that under your hat.

Mike

TOUR DATES:
2/28 – Dallas, TX http://bit.ly/YhamYE
3/1 – Austin, TX http://cactuscafe.org/events/
3/2 – Houston, TX http://bit.ly/12aIMkA
3/15 – Portland, ME http://bit.ly/12s5qoF
3/16 – Collinsville, CT http://bit.ly/TK7WDu

I’m doing another version of the tailored-for-individual-use recordings, as I did with “Dogs/Demons”, but, having gotten requests for songs I’ve already recorded, I thought I’d do another take on this thing. They’re not, like “Dogs/Demons”, a song that’ll *only* exist in individual recordings, so they’re less expensive.

For $172.28, the song of your choice–from my solo albums–recorded on an MP3 voice recorder, which I’ll sign and date.

This will be a unique performance. Nobody will have a copy of it but you–not even me.

If you want a second song, it’ll be just $90.88.

If you want a third, it’ll be $61.67.

A fourth, $34.24.

A fifth, $3,353.53.

I’ll need your full name–first, middle and last–which I’ll begin every song by saying. Two names are doable, but not three.

If you’re interested, go to http://doughtybespoke.com: there’s an FAQ there. If something remains unanswered, email curator@doughtybespoke.com for help.

I hope your 2013 has been pleasing thus far. As I hope your Hebrew year 5772 has been, though it’s 33% over, and your Chinese Year of the Dragon, though we transition to the Year of the Snake imminently.

Mike

2/22 – White River Junction, VT http://bit.ly/YnqNa4
2/23 – Londonderry, NH http://bit.ly/RgwUeC
2/24 – Northampton, MA http://bit.ly/WpHcom
2/28 – Dallas, TX http://bit.ly/YhamYE
3/1 – Austin, TX http://cactuscafe.org/events/
3/2 – Houston, TX http://bit.ly/12aIMkA
3/15 – Portland, ME http://bit.ly/12s5qoF
3/16 – Collinsville, CT http://bit.ly/TK7WDu

I got shows! Philly, Texas, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maine. See below.

The incredible Meg Skaff made a delightful video for “Take Me Home, Country Roads” (on which Rosanne Cash sings with me). It features a bewildered, yet charming Mountaineer. I hope you like it–my girlf is from West Virginia, and she digs it, so I feel reasonably confident:

Also, you must know about “Dogs/Demons” one-on-one-at-Mike-Doughty’s-actual-home, right?

On Saturday (the 22nd), you can come over to my apartment in Brooklyn, and I’ll record a version of “Dogs/Demons,” just for you, right in front of you. For real.

Skip this paragraph if you already know the deets, but: “Dogs/Demons”, recorded on a voice-memo recorder, is $543.09; if you choose to come to my house on the 22nd for $7.66 I’ll sing another song (from my solo repertory) directly to just you, nobody else in the room. There’s an optional bridge for “Dogs/Demons” that costs $267.18; if you choose to purchase that, you also get yet a third song from my solo repertory.

If you’re interested in just the tune, go to: http://mikedoughty.com/bespoke, and there’s full details, and an order form. If you’d like the performance at my house, look at that, but drop a line to curator@doughtybespoke.com before you order.

Yes, seriously, my house–probably the room on the cover of “The Question Jar Show”. If I clean it.

And hey guess what? It’s GIF Wednesday: here’s this week’s: http://mikedubious.com/06-jimmy-bell-dj/

When I do a lot of email-list-sending, I refer to it as “Axelrodding”.

I hope your holidays are ruling.

Mike

Tour Dates:
12/29 – Philadelphia, PA http://bit.ly/TjP2PT
1/12 – Brooklyn, NY http://bit.ly/TscxJz
2/15 – Harrisburg, PA http://bit.ly/Uq1KAq
2/22 – White River Junction, VT http://bit.ly/YnqNa4
2/23 – Londonderry, NH http://bit.ly/RgwUeC
2/28 – Dallas, TX
3/1 – Austin, TX
3/2 – Houston, TX http://bit.ly/12aIMkA
3/15 – Portland, ME
3/16 – Collinsville, CT http://bit.ly/TK7WDu

I sent an email last week, about the song “Dogs/Demons”–a unique recording, on a voice-memo recorder, of a song that will be forever unreleased (and never played live). It costs $543.18, with an optional bridge for $267.09.

I’m doing something weird, again: on Saturday, Dec 22nd, I’ll be recording the song in one-on-one shows.

Come to my house, I’ll set the recorder between you and I, and record the tune in your presence. You and I, nobody else in the room (probably my quasi-studio at home–the one on the cover of “The Question Jar Show”).

Additionally! If you’d like one extra song, of your choice (it must be from my solo records, and approved in advance), I’m having a one-day only 98%-off sale: $7.66, with purchase of “Dogs/Demons”.

Also! There is a bonus song, complimentary with purchase of the bridge.

For more details, as well as sample recordings of “Dogs/Demons”, and photographs of the voice-memo recorder, go to: mikedoughty.com/bespoke.

If you’d like to participate, you must purchase the song, and book your slot, in advance. Do NOT use the order form–drop a line to curator@doughtybespoke.com.

(This is mostly to make sure you’re not a crazy person.)

Recordings will take place in Brooklyn, four subway stops from Manhattan, between 1 and 6 pm. Indicate your preferred time, and we will do our best to accommodate you.

I contend that bringing your significant other to my house, and sitting him or her in front of me for an intense one-person show will freak them out better than any other gift you could get them this holiday season.

Mike

Tour Dates:
12/14 – Boston, MA http://bit.ly/RequZZ
12/29 – Philadelphia, PA http://bit.ly/TjP2PT
1/12 – Brooklyn, NY http://bit.ly/TscxJz
2/15 – Harrisburg, PA http://bit.ly/Uq1KAq
2/22 – White River Junction, VT http://bit.ly/YnqNa4
2/23 – Londonderry, NH http://bit.ly/RgwUeC
3/2 – Houston, TX http://bit.ly/12aIMkA
3/15 – Portland, ME
3/16 – Collinsville, CT http://bit.ly/TK7WDu