The 2011 Release Don't Look Back

"A master songwriter with unmistakable influences from Paul Westerberg" - San Francisco Chronicle

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Bake It Black Records has released the 2011 recording Don't Look Back by Paul Dougherty. Don't Look Back is the third CD in the last 3 years recorded by Paul, including the 2010 release I'm Only in It for the Money and the 2009 release Grace Under Water.

This collection of songs were mostly written around 1987-1988 during Paul's tenure with the Nashville alt punk band In A Sense, and additionally there are a couple of songs performed with the popular 90s Nashville band Chilhowie.

All songs were written by Paul Dougherty, as well as performed and recorded in 2011 by Paul Dougherty in Munich, Germany. Highlights include the single Generation Ex and songs such as Man in the Moon, Ash Wednesday, Poison Tree and more.

I'm Only in It for the Money (2010)

"One of the best rock recordings of the year" - The Guardian

I'm Only In It For The Money - This 2010 collection of songs from Paul Dougherty comes on the heels of the 2009 release Grace Under Water, the critically acclaimed and Top 10 Roots Music Report charting album. All songs were written and recorded by Paul Dougherty at his home studio in Munich, Germany in 2010. Download it for free or pay at iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody and more.

Grace Under Water (2009)

Top 10 in Roots Music Report Folk Charts for Internet radio play

"A haunting and beautiful record that deserves your attention" - Clicks & Pops

"This album contains some of the most creative and mentally stimulating music I've heard in eons" - Village Voice

"Echos of James Taylor but before he got clean and after a wretched summer tour with Dylan and Lennon" - Austin Chronicle

Grace Under Water is the cd from Paul Dougherty, released in 2009. Since its release, it has been gathering rave reviews from press and listeners around the world.

Grace Under Water was recorded in 2009. The cd is a collection of 12 original tunes which range from Indie Pop to Americana sounds. The songs owe recognition to influences such as Nick Drake, John Lennon, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Paul Westerberg. The cd has been released on Bake It Black Records.

Besides these recordings, Paul recorded In My Living Room in 2004, a collection of acoustic songs. In 2001, he recorded Keep the Feet On with his Nashville group The Uninsurables, an Americana band with Steve Byam on steel guitar and banjo, Andy Chelton on upright bass and Shannon Pollard on drums. The 1999 recording Happy Hour by the popular Nashville indie band Chilhowie includes Green Brookhart on bass and Shannon Pollard on drums.

Paul is also an avid photographer, painter and writer. Most of his photo techniques involve analog processes, including some of the first photographic processes ever invented that require contact printing and UV light such as cyanotypes, a technique developed in 1842 by John Herschel, as well as Vandykes, Gum bichromate prints, Tempera prints and more. He also uses various Polaroid techniques and Polaroid films such as SX70 manipulations and peel apart processes, emulsion lifts and emulsion transfers.

Paul's favorite photographic process is Lith photography, which involves the use of special lith developers and papers made especially for this process. Many of the photos you can see in the photography section of this site are infrared photographs developed as lith prints and toned using various toners such as gold, selenium, copper and more.

Digital releases by Paul Dougherty are offered for listening and downloading free on the site and for sale at various music downloading sites around the world.