American singer-songwriter and author. Since 2000, he has released 18 and counting studio, live albums, and EPs

In 1992 he founded the band Soul Coughing while a doorman at the New York club The Knitting Factory (in that era, a hotbed of avant-garde jazz). The band released three critically and commercially successful albums, Ruby Vroom (1994), Irresistible Bliss (1996) and El Oso (1998). The greatest hits album Lust in Phaze was released in 2002.
In 2012, Doughty published a memoir called The Book of Drugs, covering his formative years as a musician, what he called the “dark, abusive marriage” that was Soul Coughing, and his experiences with addiction and recovery.
In 2014, created a rock opera based on the Book of Revelation called Revelation.
In 2015, he moved to Memphis, Tennessee.
In 2019, mounted a U.S. tour in honor of the 25th anniversary of Ruby Vroom in which he played the album in its entirety.
In May 2020, published his second memoir titled I Die Each Time I Hear The Sound: A Memoir, which he wrote to expound upon his musical tastes and how they came to be.
In August 2020, Doughty announced his new project Ghost of Vroom with longtime collaborator Andrew “Scrap” Livingston.