Rockity Roll

Infobox Album |
Name = Rockity Roll
Type = EP
Artist = Mike Doughty


Released = 2003
Recorded = May 27–28, 2003
Genre = Rock
Length = 17:18
Label = (self-released)
Producer = Pat Dillett
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Last album = ""
(2002)
This album = "Rockity Roll"
(2003)
Next album = "Skittish / Rockity Roll"
(2004)

"Rockity Roll" was the third solo recording released by Mike Doughty after the breakup of his former band, Soul Coughing. It is a six-song EP which he recorded in New York City over two days in May 2003 at Pat Dillett's tiny, windowless cubby at Kampo studios, a cultural center on Bond Street in New York's NoHo, owned by a prestigious Japanese calligrapher--the bottom floors of the building are studios, and the top two are dedicated to traditional Japanese calligraphy.

Everything on the record was recorded by Doughty: vocal, acoustic guitar, and programming done on a lo-fi Roland Groovebox. It was conceived as a cross between acoustic indie rock and chintzy electroclash.

Though its release pre-dated "Haughty Melodic", Doughty made it near the end of that disc's recording process, as a kind of breather from that album's laborious, two-year process; he wanted to see how quickly he could make and release an album.

The self-released version of "Rockity Roll" is out of print; it's currently available as part of the "Skittish / Rockity Roll" two disc re-release.

Track listing

All songs written and performed by Mike Doughty.

# "Ways + Means" – 3:06
# "27 Jennifers" – 2:49
# "Down on the River by the Sugar Plant" – 3:07
# "40 Grand in the Hole" – 2:15
# "Ossining" – 2:37
# "Cash Cow" – 3:22