ULYSSA Presents: Doug Newman

In yet another head-scratching, "How did they even find this guy?" moment for ULYSSA, they’ve dusted off Doug Newman—a true van-dwelling original whose home-recorded acoustic tunes feel like Jack Johnson and Little Wings somehow conspired to soundtrack a life lived off-grid and off-the-clock. There’s something disarmingly unhurried about the way Doug strums and mumbles his way through each song, as if he’s got all the time in the world to let you in on whatever strange thought just crossed his mind. When you’re drifting at Doug’s pace—delivering food by mountain bike, bouncing between parks and campsites like a latter-day Daniel Boone armed only with a battered guitar—the days just sort of blur together, and that’s exactly how he likes it.