Soul Coughing, 1992-2000, was a New York-based band founded by vocalist and guitarist Mike Doughty(who billed himself at the time as 'M. Doughty'), a folk singer (he attended Eugene Lang College with Ani DiFranco, where they studied with Sekou Sundiataand played around the school together), slam poet, sometime music writer, and doorman at the old Houston Street location of The Knitting Factory, then a nexus for such avant-garde artists as John Zorn . Doughty put the band together from instrumentalists he met as they came through the club; he met sampler player Mark De Gli Antoni(recently graduated with a composition degree from Mannes College of Music) when they both participated in a performance of Zorn's "game piece" Cobra. This same ensemble also featured Jeff Buckley. Doughty brought a stack of CDs over to De Gli Antoni's house one afternoon and had him sample iconic riffs from Raymond Scott, Carl Stalling, Howlin' Wolf, and The Andrews Sisters, among others.
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Soul Coughing
Stop hitching the monster man
It was a bad plan,
But I had to get to town
Unbitten,
But the way I found it was a hand came down
And pow,
I got illuminated
Thats why I have got my mind in my own
Hand over the wave,
Hand over the water,
The realest of the real
Its like the burnout said - phenomenon
To the ruder bar in a buddha plump van
It was a stamped can,
It was a clamor
Understanding,
And all you people jumping but we raised the bar
Youre dumber than a box of rocks
Give up, star
The inscrutable,
The irrefutable,
The illegible,
The indisputable
The undisputed
Makes me go on a dig