He co-founded The Elephant 6 Recording Company in Athens, Georgia and was a key member of The Olivia Tremor Control.

[1] He was a native of Dubach, Louisiana, where he met Will Cullen Hart, Robert Schneider and Jeff Mangum, his friends at nearby Ruston High School.

[2] 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 pop such as The Beatles, the Beach Boys and The Zombies.

After the release of the second The Olivia Tremor Control album, Black Foliage, the band broke up in 2000.

In 2004, TSF released its second album Green Imagination (which featured artwork and videos by Kevin Evans).