Singer-songwriter Mike Doughty has always featured covers in his live sets, but he usually leaves studio recordings for his original material. That will change on November 6th with the release of The Flip Is Another Honey, an album filled with covers in which Doughty tackles songs from the likes of John Denver, Randy Newman, Thin Lizzy and Low and even throws a few show tunes into the mix.

The album’s first single is a cover of John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads on which Doughty is helped out by Rosanne Cash. Take a listen…

“‘Country Roads’ was my first favorite song. When I was three, I listened to John Denver’s greatest hits, on one of those big shoebox cassette players you used to see in school libraries. I lay in the back of a massive, green, 1970s Oldsmobile, pressing the shoddy, mono speaker up to my ear,” says Doughty about the track in a press release. Interestingly, except for a handful of songs that were performed live, in the studio, in which he was backed by a cello and piano, Doughty played, or programmed, every sound on the release.

Here’s the complete tracklist and upcoming tour dates…

MIKE DOUGHTY – “THE FLIP IS ANOTHER HONEY” TRACK LIST:

1. Sunshine

2. A Fanfare

3. Jimmy Bell
(originally by Cat Iron, based on a version by 15 60 75 the Numbers Band)

4. Take Me Home, Country Roads
(feat. Rosanne Cash; originally by John Denver)

5. Southern Girls
(originally by Cheap Trick)

6. Tightrope
(based around a chorus by The Stone Roses)

7. Send in the Clowns
(originally from the musical “Company,” by Stephen Sondheim)

8. Running Back
(originally by Thin Lizzy)

9. Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat
(originally from “Guys and Dolls,” by Frank Loesser)

10. Boy + Angel
(originally by Doveman)

11. Reach Out
(originally by Cheap Trick)

12. Ta Douleur
(originally by Camille)

13. God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind)
(originally by Randy Newman)

14. Mistress
(originally by Red House Painters)

15. Words
(originally by Low)

MIKE DOUGHTY TOUR DATES:

Sept 18 — New York, NY — City Winery

Sept 22 — Pensacola, FL — DeLuna Fest

Oct 12 — New York, NY — City Winery

Oct 13 — Wilmington, DE — World Cafe Live at the Queen

Nov 23 — Teaneck, NJ — Mexicali Live

Nov 24 — New York, NY — City Winery

Scott Bernstein

Scott Bernstein co-founded Hidden Track in October 2006 and was managing editor until taking over as EiC in January 2008. Scotty also writes for Relix Magazine and curates YEMblog.com.

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