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Letter from Britain: Something Might Happen

Report by Ian MacDonald, Creem, November 1974

SITUATION UNCHANGED. Still hanging on in here, waiting for something to happen. (Wait — was that a heart-grazing lobe-grinder of a new single from Mick, ...

Doobie Brothers: Takin' It To The Streets (Warner Bros. BS 2899)

Review by Bruce Malamut, Crawdaddy!, July 1976

THESE GUYS were always a little too boogie-static for my taste, playing everybody's perfect AM riff. That was the old Doobies, however, under the leadership ...

Fleetwood Mac, the Doobie Brothers, Gary Wright, Steve Gibbons: Day on the Green, Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 8 May 1977

Downpour fails to dampen Day on the Green spirits ...

Michael McDonald

Interview by Sam Sutherland, Musician, January 1981

Songwriter, keyboardist, arranger, member of the Doobies and owner of The Voice reveals himself as a somewhat reluctant superstar. Thrust into pop music's center stage ...

Doobie Brothers, Mike Bloomfield, ZZ Top: Palladium, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 1973

DOOBIE QUINTET PLAYS UNCOMPLICATED ROCK ...

The Doobie Brothers: Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia MD

Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 5 August 1982

A sloppy good-bye kiss from the Doobies at Post. ...

The Doobie Brothers' Long Train Is Still Runnin'

Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 6 June 2017

RELEASED AS A single in the summer of 1973, 'China Grove' became one of the biggest and most recognizable hits for the Doobie Brothers. The ...

The Doobie Brothers: Livin' On The Fault Line; The Rowan Brothers: Jubilation; The Cate Brothers Band: The Cate Brothers Band

Review by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, November 1977

DON'T CRY DADDY ...

Doobie Brothers Break Up

Report by Geoffrey Himes, Musician, 1982

THE DOOBIE Brothers are one of the last great AM radio bands, one of the last rock groups to concentrate primarily on hit singles. Now ...

Wide Open: An Interview with Michael McDonald

Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages, November 2017

GM: I attended three Dylan shows in your hometown St. Louis in the noughties. Visiting the arch sculpture one day felt weirdly sad, a hopeful ...

The Doobie Brothers: Let The Music Play

Film/DVD/TV Review by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 23 February 2013

THERE'S NOTHING all that special about Let the Music Play: The Story of the Doobie Brothers, but it's a well-made, thorough documentary of one of ...

The Doobie Brothers: The Doobie Brothers (Warners)

Review by Colman Andrews, Phonograph Record, August 1971

THE DOOBIE Brothers may turn out to be, it has been subtly hinted by the Warner Brothers promo department, the world's first successful "over-the-transom" recording ...

Doobie Brothers: How Stampede Drove Their Fans Into Bars

Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, May 1975

LATE ONE summer night in 1974, a clean-cut bar band plugged in on the stage of a waterfront singles menagerie in southern Connecticut. ...

Tom Johnston of The Doobie Brothers

Interview by Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 8 October 2009

AS A GUITARIST and vocalist with The Doobie Brothers, Tom Johnston wrote the kind of joyful rock that is truly classic: 'Listen To The Music', 'China ...

The Doobie Brothers: Toulouse Street

Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 30 September 1972

THERE IS SOMETHING strangely deceptive about the Doobie Brothers. First of all, their name conjures up images of Maynard G. Krebs, the ultimate beatnik and ...

Doobie Brothers: How Stampede Drove Their Fans Into Bars

Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, May 1974

LATE ONE summer night in 1974, a clean-cut bar band plugged in on the stage of a waterfront singles menagerie in southern Connecticut. ...

Tom Johnston: The Former Doobie Still Listens To The Music

Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 19 October 1979

THE YEAR was 1972. Summer had waned and I was driving along Highway 101, with the only source of music being a static-laden AM car ...

Ted Templeman: Super Producer

Interview by David Gans, BAM, 1982

The super producer talks about Little Feat, Van Halen, the Doobies, and staying sane in a world of crazies. ...

In Defence Of The Doobie Brothers…

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 1 February 1975

IT IS, PRIMARILY, totally incorrect and irrelevant to give the Doobies an out-of-hand dismissal simply because their role as bill-toppers over Little Feat at the ...

Doobie Brothers/Little Feat: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 January 1975

CURIOUSER and curiouser. There was no denying the deserving nature of the ovation that greeted Little Feat the boogie band that plays more music than ...

Doobie Brothers: Doobies — With Added Skunk

Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 11 January 1975

KALAMAZOO: Over thirty guitars, mostly Gibsons, sit on racks in one dressing room and a wooden packing case in another contains suits of clothing that ...

Doobie Brothers: Livin' On The Fault Line

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 10 September 1977

WHATEVER HAPPENED to the Doobie Brothers? I've often wondered. And this new album is no help. None of them play on it and the sleeve ...

The Doobies Brothers: Street Fighting Men

Interview by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 24 January 1976

DRUMMER JOHN Hartman leans back precariously in the Memphis Hotel room chair, fingers locked behind head and mouth working in a typically rapid manner. He's ...

The Doobie Brothers: Cycles

Review by Tom Graves, Rock & Roll Disc, July 1989

WHEN IN DOUBT, regroup. At least that seems to be the formula these days for the rock era's dinosaurs, has-beens, and once-wases. This ...

Doobie Brothers: One Guitarist On, One Guitarist Off

Report and Interview by Joel Selvin, Rolling Stone, 5 June 1975

SAN FRANCISCO – Three years ago, the Doobie Brothers lived on food stamps in San Jose, playing at ramshackle area clubs for as little as ...

Doobie Brothers: The Reward Of Facelessness

Interview by Wayne Robins, Creem, December 1975

WHO WERE THEY? Just a bunch of street people who "looked like bikers and said they wanted to be rock 'n' roll stars" – with ...

Skunk Hunting In W1

Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 19 July 1975

THERE'S A delicately detailed brass rubbing of Burlington House above the bed-head in room 420 at the Inn On The Park. Some rock musicians would've ...

Doobie Brothers: Toulouse Street

Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, October 1972

I DON'T KNOW about you, but it happens to me all the time. I get some album in the mail, listen to the whole thing ...

The Doobies’ Little Gem

Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 16 December 1972

LAST YEAR, when the Doobie Brothers made their recording debut with Warner Brothers, there was little reaction either at the time of the release of ...

The Doobie Brothers: The Captain And Me

Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 10 May 1973

THE DOOBIE BROTHERS are a mainstream rock band with a few crucial limitations and a knack of making good records despite their flaws. Their big ...

see also Tom Johnston

see also Michael McDonald

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