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Fifty-three years since their first hit single, “Listen to the Music,” raced up the charts in 1972, the Doobie Brothers are back with their 16th studio album, Walk This Road, and a 20-date tour this summer with the Coral Reefer Band that kicks off on Aug. 4 in Detroit.

The popular rock band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 and on June 12, they’ll be recognized by the Songwriters Hall of Fame as well alongside George Clinton, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, Ashley Gorley, Tony Macaulay and Mike Love.

Over the years, they’ve shifted stylistically from a crunchy country-rock band to a smooth R&b/pop outfit. Both incarnations yielded massive hits, from “China Grove” and “Black Water” in the early ’70s to “Takin’ It to the Streets” and “What a Fool Believes” later in the decade. Their multi-platinum 1978 album Minute by Minute, featuring “What a Fool Believes,” earned...

Grammy-winning Rock & Roll Hall of Famers The Doobie Brothers performed an intimate set and spoke with fans at the SiriusXM Nashville studios. You can listen to the special anytime on demand on the SiriusXM app.

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The exclusive performance was the first time that all band members – Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald, Patrick Simmons, and John McFee – performed songs from the new “Walk This Road” album in front of an audience (SiriusXM subscribers who won the chance to attend this very special event)! The performance was captured on Tuesday, May 27 and was encored during The Doobie Brothers Takeover Weekend on Classic Vinyl.

This summer, Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band is going on tour with The Doobie Brothers. As a surprise, Coral Reefer Band lead vocalist and 10-time CMA winner Mac McAnally joined The Doobie Brothers in a crowd...

The Doobie Brothers have announced the 2025 “Walk This Road Tour” in support of their upcoming new album of the same name.

The quartet of Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald, Pat Simmons, and John McFee will be joined on the road by Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band, which, following Buffett’s passing in 2023, has continued to perform his music live at his request.

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The 19-date summer tour kicks off in Detroit on August 4th, and runs through mid-September. A Live Nation ticket pre-sale is set for Thursday, February 13th at 10:00 a.m. local time (use code Duet) via Ticketmaster, with a public on-sale following on Friday, February 14th.

The Doobie Brothers’ new album, Walk This Road, is set for release in June 2025. The band is also set to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame during a ceremony set for June 12th.

The Doobie Brothers 2025 Tour Dates:

08/04 – Detroit,...

HBO has unveiled the new trailer for an upcoming documentary — or rather, dockumentary — about the emergence, popularity, and impact of the yacht rock sub-genre. Officially titled Music Box: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, the film will sail home on November 29th. Watch the trailer below.

Directed by Garrett Price, who recently worked on the Emmy-nominated Daisy Jones & The Six, Music Box: Yacht Rock explores how the niche of soft rock earned its retroactive label and speaks with many of the artists who grappled with its rise and legacy. The footage in the trailer teases interviews with Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, Thundercat, Questlove of The Roots, Mac DeMarco, and more.

“The singers all seem to be saying, ‘Hey, it’s going to be okay,'” comedian and musician Fred Armisen remarks in the trailer.

After successfully melding elements from jazz, funk, and R&b to the tune of millions of records sold,...

HBO has unveiled the new trailer for an upcoming documentary — or rather, dockumentary — about the emergence, popularity, and impact of the yacht rock sub-genre. Officially titled Music Box: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, the film will sail home on November 29th. Watch the trailer below.

Directed by Garrett Price, who recently worked on the Emmy-nominated Daisy Jones & The Six, Music Box: Yacht Rock explores how the niche of soft rock earned its retroactive label and speaks with many of the artists who grappled with its rise and legacy. The footage in the trailer teases interviews with Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, Thundercat, Questlove of The Roots, Mac DeMarco, and more.

“The singers all seem to be saying, ‘Hey, it’s going to be okay,'” comedian and musician Fred Armisen remarks in the trailer.

After successfully melding elements from jazz, funk, and R&b to the tune of millions of records sold,...

For all its surface smoothness, yacht rock — and the artists who created it over the last few decades — can be turbulent below deck. Some of the musicians and singers associated with the genre (whether they want to be linked to it or not) can have dark sides, illicit pasts, insecurities, and surprising rock & roll antics sides.

As he reveals in his new memoir, What a Fool Believes, no one encompasses that dichotomy quite like Michael McDonald. That gently huffing mellow voice and electric piano often hid a wild lifestyle, at least during his early,...

The Doobie Brothers’ reunion with Michael McDonald is stretching beyond their upcoming tour, as the band has confirmed they’re back in the studio working on a new album.

McDonald rejoined The Doobie Brothers for their 50th anniversary tour in 2021 (originally scheduled for ’20), which was recently expanded into this summer with Steve Winwood and Robert Cray as support. Those early concerts were the group’s first with McDonald in 25 years, and now they’re recording their first collection of new material together since 1980’s One Step Closer.

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Guitarist/vocalist Pat Simmons announced the news on Facebook. “We are very close to finishing up an album’s worth of new songs. We’re lucky once again to have John Shanks producing and Michael McDonald joining in with us on this one!” Simmons wrote, noting that they’re targeting “a Spring/Summer release.” “It’s the...

The Doobie Brothers have scheduled an extensive US tour in summer 2024.

The tour will see Tom Johnston, Michael MacDonald, Pat Simmons, and John McFee continue their reunion by playing shows in 37 cities, including in several markets that the band has not played in several years. As an added bonus, Robert Cray and Steve Winwood will take turns serving as the tour’s primary support. Check out the full list of dates below.

A Live Nation ticket pre-sale is set for Thursday, January 25th (use access code Spotlight), with a public on sale following on Friday, January 26th via Ticketmaster.

Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

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To celebrate their 50th anniversary,...

The Doobie Brothers have unveiled their 15th studio album, Liberté, out Friday, October 1st.

The band produced and co-wrote all 12 tracks of the album with John Shanks (Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus). Rather than release the songs sequentially as singles, the Doobie Brothers have released a special extended play, The Doobie Brothers EP, featuring four tracks from Liberté: “Oh Mexico,” “Cannonball,” “Don’t Ya Mess With Me,” and “Better Days.” The EP is available now on streaming.

Later this month, the Doobie Brothers will embark on their highly anticipated 50th anniversary tour,...

Michael McDonald will host his own Home Alone: A Special Solo Concert livestream on September 30th.

Tickets for the gig — which will feature McDonald tackling songs from his own catalog as well as the Doobie Brothers and “maybe a cover or two and the stories behind them” — are available now; for $20, fans can both watch the virtual concert live and stream it for 48 hours after it concludes.

The Class of 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee has been active serenading fans throughout the coronavirus pandemic, including a remake...

Dave Mason has rerecorded his 1968 Traffic classic “Feelin’ Alright'” for the quarantine age with help from Sammy Hagar, Mick Fleetwood, Michael McDonald and the Doobie Brothers.

The song wasn’t a huge hit when it appeared on the first Traffic record, but it’s since been covered by everyone from Joe Cocker and Three Dog Night to the Jackson Five, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Paul Weller and Isaac Hayes.

“Who would have thought that this would go on to be covered by so many different artists and bands, you just never know,...

Michael McDonald has released audio from his live rendition of “What the World Needs Now,” originally written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach in 1965.

The timely concert recording premiered on Billboard alongside a lyric video, depicting heartwarming home videos of family and the outdoors.

McDonald told Billboard that he likes to end his live shows with “What the World Needs Now,” Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” or both songs. “We’ve tried to make our live shows leave people with a sense of community and a little something...

The Doobie Brothers have added 23 additional dates to their 50th anniversary tour. The news follows the band’s announcement earlier this month — during their show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium — that former member Michael McDonald will be once again joining their lineup.

The singer-keyboardist will be joining Tom Johnston, Pat Simmons and John McFee as they tour together as The Doobie Brothers for the first time in nearly 25 years.

Simmons stated, “Next year our tour will include Tom, John, and myself, along with Michael McDonald, and the fans will have...

The smooth and country ways of The Doobie Brothers can be relived with the release of ‘Live At The Greek Theatre 1982′ on June 28th via Eagle Rock Entertainment. The performance in Berkley, California, which marked the country rock group’s final date of their final tour, will be available on CD and DVD. Known as their “Farewell Tour,” The Doobie Brothers, guitarist and vocalist, Pat Simmons, keyboardist and vocalist, Michael McDonald, drummer, Keith Knudson, guitarist, violinist and harmonica player, John McFee, saxophonist, keyboardist and flautist, Cornelius Bumpus, drummer and percussionist, Chet McCracken, bassist, Willie Weeks and conga player, Bob Lakind, graced the stage and captured the moments of their every...