Career
Doss was married to freelance photographer Amy Hairston Doss, whom he met while both were attending Louisiana Technical University. Before the Doss had recorded under the name, and self-released A Spiraling World of People’s, which later helped comprise songs. Before the, Doss had spent some time in the army, after which he joined New York based band Chocolate United States of America before heading back to Athens, Georgia, where at the time of his death he was still a resident.
Doss, Hart and Mangum soon formed what was later to become the After Mangum left the band to pursue his own Neutral Milk Hotel, Hart and Doss began to pool their musical influences, Hart being a proponent of experimentalism, Doss of 60"s popular such as The Beatles, the Beach Boys and The Zombies.
After the release of the second album, Black Foliage, the band broke up in 2000. Doss went on to restart.
That band"s first full-length album, Age of the Sun, was released in 2002. In 2004, Télégraphie Sans Fil released the less well received Green Imagination (which featured artwork and videos by Kevin Evans).
Doss began touring with in early 2006, playing keyboards.
He appeared on the Apples" 2007 album New Magnetic Wonder, was listed as a full-fledged band member on the band"s 2010 album Travellers in Space and Time, and contributed to the songwriting on both albums. At the time of his death, Doss was producing albums in his own studio in Athens. Doss"s death was announced on July 31, 2012, with confirming it on their official website.
Versus
Chocolate United States.A. Smoke Machine (1994).