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Day Eighty Nine (Year Two)

Had a customer mention the name Mike Doughty today.  Truthfully, they bought an album, and I thought I recognized the name.  Turns out, the reason I recognized the name is because he was the lead singer of Soul Coughing back in the 90's.  They were sort of the beatnik poet's answer to grunge.  I've never owned anything by them, but I think that will happen soon, even if it has to come as a byproduct of checking out (and purchasing) all of Mike Doughty's solo work.  I previewed it all when it got slow today, and the things he does with loops and electronica underneath acoustic guitars and sweet melodicism puts someone like Everlast to shame.

Interestingly enough, that sort of mix is the sort of thing I envision for a solo acoustic record that will be happening at some point.  I need a looping pedal if I'm really going to get serious about that, though.

I've started following a blog called "Slugs On My Refrigerator."  It's written by a customer's daughter who lives overseas now.  We got to talking about readership and other aspects of blogging.  It got me thinking that I need to post some clips of what we're working on with the band.  I've had some people ask when I'm going to post some things.  I just need to look into copyright first.

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