Smofe + Smang: Live in Minneapolis is a live album by Mike Doughty recorded at the Woman's Club Theater in Minneapolis on February 27, 2002. It was his second solo release, and was only available in a limited edition of 2500.
Now out of print, copies of the original CD have sold on eBay for as much as $200. An abridged version titled Half Smofe was released in December 2007 featuring 11 of the 18 songs from the original album.
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Smofe + Smang: Live in Minneapolis is a live album by Mike Doughty recorded at the Woman's Club Theater in Minneapolis on February 27, 2002. It was his second solo release, and was only available in a limited edition of 2500.
Now out of print, copies of the original CD have sold on eBay for as much as $200. An abridged version titled Half Smofe was released in December 2007 featuring 11 of the 18 songs from the original album.
The album featured an intro--meant to baffle--spoken entirely in Spanish by Doughty's childhood friend Matthew Saldivar. It details a childhood incident in which Doughty accused him of stealing his Batman doll.
Smofe is a document of Doughty's honed touring act around that time, featuring pop-culture jokes, stark versions of tunes he wrote for Soul Coughing, and a disarming, off-the-cuff, audience-interactive style. On the songs "Sunkeneyed Girl" and "Grey Ghost," Doughty jokes that he hasn't written bridges for the tunes, and fills the space with "fake words"...
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