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The tour, which comes to Tinley Park on Sunday, includes two founders as well as on-again-off-again vocalist Michael McDonald.

After a year delay, the Doobie Brothers hit the road for a 50th anniversary tour with Michael McDonald. "Being on the stage is what its all about," Tom Johnston said.

A countdown of every studio album by the Doobie Brothers.

The Prairie Homestead Power Show and Market returns for 2021. The show will be held for the 31st time, after taking a break last year due to Covid-19.

The Doobie Brothers announced three new dates for their 50th Anniversary Tour — their first in 25 years to feature singer Michael McDonald — in June 2021.

The Ghosts of Comanche Crossing In 1981 three Black teenagers drowned while in law enforcement custody during a Juneteenth gathering at Lake Mexia. Four decades later, Texas’s proudest Emancipation Day celebration still hasn’t recovered. Lake Mexia, seen from Booker T. Washington Park, known locally as Comanche Crossing, on April 21, 2021. Photograph by Michael Starghill Every Juneteenth, as soon as Pamela Baker got to Booker T. Washington Park, she’d race to the merry-go-round, squeeze ...

Join Formed in San Jose, California in 1970, The Doobie Brothers released their self-titled debut album 50 years ago this week. With a foundational rock sound that easily worked in elements of other genres like soul and R&B, The Doobie Brothers proved themselves by maintaining success while alternating between two iconic and recognizable vocalists. Inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame 16 years before they made it to the Rock and Roll Hall, the band continues to be celebrated for its harm...

By Tom King We continue our look at the music of 50 years ago….   Tom Johnston was playing in Bay Area bands in the late 60’s when he hooked up with drummer John Hartman along with various bass players in power trios that banged out rock & blues in clubs around San Francisco and San Jose. In 1970 guitarist and songwriter Patrick Simmons and bassist Dave Shogren joined the duo and formed what became known as the Doobie Brothers. Another area musician is credited with giving them the...

When Michael McDonald Told the Doobie Brothers They Were Done Michael McDonald recalled the moment he told his Doobie Brothers bandmates that he didn’t think the group had a future, leading to their farewell tour of 1982. He’d been a member for seven years by the time they split; and, in a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, he recalled that the idea of splitting hadn’t been on his mind until Patrick Simmons had decided to bow out. “I dont think I would have ever quit the band...

Michael McDonald recalls moment that led to the Doobie Brothers' 1982 split in February 2021.