New Mike Doughty Album "Yes And Also Yes" Produced By Patrick Dillett

August 30th, 2011 by Trenton

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Former Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty has a new album out today, Yes And Also Yes.

Doughty recorded the album with producer/engineer Patrick Dillett in NYC sessions spanning from July 2010 to April 2011.

“Notable musicians included my trusty factotum Andrew “Scrap” Livingston on bass, and the pianist Thomas Bartlett, aka Doveman, who basically plays with everbody who’s groovy (Justin Bond, Antony and the Johnsons, Glen Hansard, the National, David Byrne, Yoko Ono),” Doughty detailed.

“I’m releasing it on my own label, SNACK BAR, through Megaforce. I split with Dave Matthews’ label ATO so I could run my own shop and have more control, business-wise.”

Dillet also noted: “I wrote most of the songs at the legendary artists’ colony Yaddo, where Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, Sylvia Plath, and a lot of other all-time giants worked. It was founded by a railroad tycoon’s wife, in her mansion, built in the 1890s. They put up artists for a month or two, feed them in an opulent dining room, and give them space and time to work.”

Another couple Yes And Also Yes fun facts:

“I used a capsule of the antidepressant duloxetine as a percussion instrument on some tracks. I held the tiny pill between my thumb and forefinger, put it close to the mic and shook it so it made a shcka-shcka-shcka! sound.”

“I play a Chinese lute (called a zhong ruan) on the song “Telegenic Exes #1”

Hear/Buy Yes And Also Yes via Amazon or iTunes.