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Spotlight: Long Train Runnin’ The Doobie Brothers have held the groove for 53 years by Garrick Rawlings Long before Americana was recognized as a genre, The Doobie Brothers were already exactly that. Coming out of the late 1960s Bay Area hippie scene, most bands focused on folk and psychedelic rock. The Doobies blended R&B, gospel, blues, jazz, country rock and biker boogie, incorporating extraordinary three-part vocal harmonies on top of it all. Over 50 years later, The Doobie Brothers are remarkably intact. Original band founders, singers and guitarists Patrick Simmons and Tom Johnston are still at the helm, and touring with the band for the first time in over 25 years is singer and keyboard player Michael McDonald, who joined in 1975. Add multi instrumentalist John McFee, who joined in 1979, and this tour is vintage Doobie Brothers. The Doobies are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for good reason. Few bands in history played a more joyous brand of rock and roll. The variety of styles the individual musicians bring to the band is what makes them so attractively eclectic. The foundation of their perfect meld of diversities lay within Johnston’s appreciation R&B artists like…
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