Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well (2005)

Artist: Mike Doughty

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Disc 1
Song Title	Album	Sample	Time
1. Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well	Haughty Melodic		------

(P) 2005 ATO Records, LLC.

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Release Date: 5/3/2005

Label: ATO Records

UPC: 00880882153724

Buy.com Sku: 201515528

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Notes & Personnel Info
	Personnel: Mike Doughty (vocals, guitar, drums, programming); Dave Matthews (vocals); Joe Savage (pedal steel guitar); Jane Scarpantoni (cello); Jay Rodriguez (flute, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); John Munson (trombone, double bass); Dan Wilson (piano, keyboards, bass guitar, background vocals); Shahzad Ismaily (piano, bass guitar, drums); Andy Thompson, Eric Fawcett (drums); Ken Chastain (percussion); Amy Jennings (background vocals).
	Mike Doughty first gained attention as leader of the incomparably quirky New York quartet Soul Coughing, who scored a couple of unlikely modern-rock hits in the mid-to-late 1990s. Soul Coughing earned critical acclaim and a hearty cult following for its blend of Doughty's anti-folk poetry (often highly abstract and heavy on beat repetition) with unique and unquestionably catchy concoctions of jazz, funk, and electronica.
	In the years following SC's dissolution, Doughty transformed into a skilled solo perfomer, as revealed on his 2005 album, HAUGHTY MELODIC. While his trademark penchant for staccato repetition is present (see the brilliantly melodic "Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well"), Doughty's overall approach is more straightforward here. However, he remains wildly and wonderfully unpredictable, as he duets with Dave Matthews on the barroom ballad "Tremendous Brunettes" at one moment and indulges in silly pop on the next with "I Hear the Bells." Awash with inventive instrumental textures, HAUGHTY MELODIC is an intelligent and unabashedly fun record.
Producer: Dan Wilson
Engineer: Dan Wilson
Musical Guests
	Dave Matthews

Technical Info


	Release Date : 05/03/2005
	Original Release Date : 2005
	Catalog ID : 21537
	Label : ATO Records (USA)
	Number of Discs : 1
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00880882153724

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (p.80)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "[L]aid-back roots rock. Doughty hasn't lost the indie-boy cynicism that endeared him to loads of college kids."

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