''Rockity Roll'' was the third solo recording released by

Mike Doughty Michael Ross Doughty ( ; born June 10, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and author. He founded the band Soul Coughing in 1992, and as of '' The Heart Watches While the Brain Burns'' (2016), has released 18 studio albums, live albums, and ...

after the breakup of his former band,

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. It is a six-song EP which he recorded in

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over two days in May 2003 at Pat Dillett's tiny, windowless cubby at

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studios. Everything on the record was recorded by Doughty: vocal, acoustic guitar, and programming done on a lo-fi Roland

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. The self-released version of ''Rockity Roll'' is out of print; it is currently available (with bonus tracks) as part of the ''Skittish / Rockity Roll'' two disc re-release. In a joint review for ''Rockity Roll'' and ''Skittish'', ''Pitchfork'' gave a rating of 7.5 and noted, "''Rockity Roll'' dresses up similar, but lesser, songs in dinky keyboards and drum machines, and yet, for everything he adds, this mini-album seems to lose something."

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

References

{{Authority control 2003 EPs Mike Doughty albums Albums produced by Pat Dillett