Bodies for Voices: Mike Doughty
Posted on 23 April 2010
MIKE DOUGHTY is a singer and songwriter whose latest album is called Sad Man, Happy Man. In the 1990s he headed the band Soul Coughing, known for their creative sampling and Mike’s poetic lyric delivery; since 2000 he has been solo–his albums include Skittish, Rockity-Roll, and Golden Delicious. Mike is also a poet; his book, Slanky, was published in 1996 by Soft Skull Press. His songs are poetic, and his poems are musical; the processes of writing for him are inseparable. He is currently working on a memoir.
We spoke in November 2009, when he came to Cambridge on tour. In this episode, Mike reads several poems from Slanky, and talks about his musical and poetic influences, beginning with his work with Seiku Sundiata, Ani diFranco and Suzan-Lori Parks while a student at NYU, through his engagement with hip-hop in New York in the 1990’s, to his newest work, which he describes as resonating with older, more elemental musical forms. 
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