After originally making a name for himself as the front man of the band, Soul Coughing in the 1990s, Mike Doughty embarked on a solo singer songwriting career in 2000.
Unfortunately, Doughty was dropped from Warner Brothers, but decided to take the bad with the good and rented a car in which he travelled 9000 miles on his first ever solo tour playing acoustic gigs, where he would sell CD copies of his acoustic album entitled “Skittish” at the end of his sets. Throughout a three-year tour, Doughty managed to shift 20,000 copies of the album.
He was without a label until playing at the Bonnaroo festival of 2004, where he bumped into Dave Matthews, who was already a fan of Soul Coughing, who would invite them to support him on previous tours, including a concert at Madison Square Garden. Dave Matthews would go on to release Doughty’s single under the name “Haughty Melodic” which is an anagram for Michael Daughty, on his ATO label. The album went to number 175 in the Billboard 200 Charts. The main single released from the album was called “Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well” which came to prominence after being featured on episodes of the hit TV shows, Grey’s Anatomy and Veronica Mars. It led to a feature on the Late Show with David Letterman, which brought Doughty back to the eye of the public, and re launched his career. He has since released five studio albums. The most recent being a crowd funded project called “Stellar Motel” in 2014, which managed to reach number 66 on the Billboard 200 Charts.
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