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Mike Doughty
Released 2004

27 Jennifers
02:49
7,976 plays

Down On The River By The Sugar Plant
03:07
6,650 plays

The Only Answer
02:08
6,129 plays

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- 1
- The Only Answer
- 02:08
- 6,129 plays

- 2
- The Pink Life
- 02:58
- 4,841 plays

- 3
- Real Love/It's Only Life
- 03:10
- 4,882 plays

- 4
- No Peace, Los Angeles
- 03:31
- 4,425 plays

- 5
- Where Have You Gone?
- 03:12
- 3,902 plays

- 6
- Thank You, Lord, For Sending Me The F Train
- 02:42
- 4,096 plays

- 7
- Looks
- 02:56
- 4,513 plays

- 8
- Shunned & Falsified
- 02:42
- 3,599 plays

- 9
- All The Dirt
- 02:33
- 3,682 plays

- 10
- Sweet Lord In Heaven
- 01:44
- 4,211 plays

- 11
- Language Barrier
- 02:12
- 3,523 plays

- 12
- Rising Sign
- 02:20
- 4,684 plays

- 13
- Ways & Means
- 03:06
- 4,819 plays

- 14
- 27 Jennifers
- 02:49
- 7,976 plays

- 15
- Down On The River By The Sugar Plant
- 03:07
- 6,650 plays

- 16
- 40 Grand In The Hole
- 02:15
- 4,096 plays

- 17
- Ossining
- 02:37
- 4,796 plays

- 18
- Cash Cow
- 03:22
- 4,238 plays

- 19
- The Only Answer (Live)
- 02:32
- 3,820 plays

- 20
- Move On (Bloom Like The Sunlight In My Song) (Live)
- 04:46
- 3,626 plays

- 21
- I Failed To Use It (Skittish Outtake)
- 01:57
- 3,789 plays

- 22
- Laundrytown (Skittish Outtake)
- 01:39
- 3,192 plays

- 23
- Get Along
- 03:55
- 3,738 plays

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album review

Gathering Mike Doughty's 2000 acoustic release Skittish -- produced by Kramer (of Low and Galaxie 500 fame) and recorded in 1996 -- and his 2003 EP Rockity Roll, this reissue proves that cruelly overlooked singer/songwriters win out every once in a while. Reviving the formula that made Soul Coughing's "Circles" so irresistible, Doughty's love affair with drum programming and bluesy guitar fills on "Ways + Means" are secondary to an unforgettable chorus. More melodic and possibly more alluring, another EP extract, "27 Jennifers," could and should be the singer's mainstream breakthrough. If the technology charged, mid-tempo street ode "Down on the River by the Sugar Plant" broadens Doughty's scope, it's "40 Grand in the Hole" where he sounds his most natural as a maturing troubadour "standing in line at Teriyaki Boy." If it's possible, the unplugged Skittish material is even more appealing, as Doughty medleys a 1992 Mary J. Blige smash with an underground classic by the Feelies on "Real Love/It's Only Life." Elsewhere, on "The Only Answer," his layered vocals and tracked guitar work is as edgy, urgent and transcendent as bare music has a right to be. The latter gets duplicated -- as one of two bonus tracks recorded at Bonnaroo in 2004 -- alongside a pair of Skittish outtakes, but the real find for Doughty disciples who already own most of this material is "Get Along." Recorded for the film Evenhand, with a tact similar to the Rockity Roll tracks, this solid mid-tempo groove is as magical as anything in Doughty's canon. ~ John D. Luerssen, All Music Guide