Being a big Soul Coughing fan I downloaded the Mike Doughty “Wichita” font shortly after it came out, messed around with it for 10 minutes, and then forgot all about it since I didn’t really have a practical use for it. (Origin story in Chank’s own words is available at WBR.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n Flashforward a decade. While working on the remastered layout<\/a> of Timely Persuasion<\/em> with Bryan Davidson we hit upon this idea of doing the Local Boy setlists in a handwriting font. Originally we tried the Apple “Marker Felt” font, but it felt sort of cheesy and overplayed. I suddenly remembered Wichita, and miraculously managed to copy it over each time I switched computers over the years.<\/p>\n I emailed Mr. Diesel regarding permissions and he was super cool about it, as was Mr. Doughty when I let him know of his inspiration. And there you have it.<\/p>\n While we’re on the subject of Mike Doughty, check out his amazing new album Sad Man Happy Man<\/em><\/a>. I know this sounds odd coming on the heels of my Benji Hughes post, but this is another of those rare, expectation-defying albums I just can’t get enough of. Beats out Dark Night of the Soul<\/em><\/a> for my album of the year crown, and when the newness clears might even give Skittish<\/em><\/a> a run for its money on the “best album ever” front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Had a couple of recent questions about the font on the setlists in the paperback, which caused me to realize I never blogged about the origin of that in any detail. Could have sworn I did, but a quick scan of the archives proves otherwise. Here we go: Once upon a time a designer named…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[38,35],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes","category-music","tag-local-boy","tag-mike-doughty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-cp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1558,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/re-imagined-reissued-remixed-recovered\/","url_meta":{"origin":769,"position":0},"title":"Re-imagined, Reissued, Remixed, Recovered","author":"LBDG","date":"October 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"My original plan wasn't to review these two albums together, but when the synergy hit me I couldn't pass it up. 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