{"id":31099,"date":"2025-06-08T14:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-doobie-brothers-on-songwriting\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T14:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:56:17","slug":"the-doobie-brothers-on-songwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-doobie-brothers-on-songwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doobie Brothers on songwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>In a Nashville rehearsal studio, the Doobie Brothers are getting ready for another summer tour, playing &#8220;Long Train Runnin&#8217;.&#8221; More than 50 years in, and 48 million albums sold, they still want to be sure they sound sharp, even on hits they&#8217;ve played thousands of times.<\/p>\n<p>It was 1973, when co-founder Tom Johnston wrote down words for a riff they&#8217;d been jamming to for years in bars and clubs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Down around the corner<br \/>Half a mile from here<br \/>See them long trains runnin&#8217;<br \/>And you watch &#8217;em disappear<br \/>Without love<br \/>Where would you be now?<br \/>(Without lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ve)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How long did it take for him to come up with the words? &#8220;I would like to say it was a labor of love, but it wasn&#8217;t; it was about 20 minutes in the bathroom using the tile to sing with,&#8221; Johnston said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/961c2e47-bc13-451e-ba62-3828fb029c25\/thumbnail\/620x349\/697d305ebaeba78a4838debc1f109614\/doobie-brothers-in-rehearsal.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6#\" alt=\"doobie-brothers-in-rehearsal.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/961c2e47-bc13-451e-ba62-3828fb029c25\/thumbnail\/620x349\/697d305ebaeba78a4838debc1f109614\/doobie-brothers-in-rehearsal.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/961c2e47-bc13-451e-ba62-3828fb029c25\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/a717e975ec17953bca3c6fc0dad4b2ad\/doobie-brothers-in-rehearsal.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">The Doobie\u00a0 Brothers in rehearsal for their latest tour, which was launched this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Which tells us something when it comes to the Doobie Brothers&#8217; songwriting: As much as their hits are a triumph of technique and theory (as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/the-doobie-brothers-still-going-strong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Michael McDonald shared with &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; a few years back<\/a>, detailing the writing of &#8220;Takin&#8217; It to the Streets&#8221;), sometimes, says Patrick Simmons (who wrote the band&#8217;s first #1 hit, &#8220;Black Water&#8221;), it&#8217;s a lot less complicated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Accidents happened,&#8221; Simmons laughed. &#8220;A lot of things kind of fall out of the sky and hit you on the head, you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Doobie Brothers sing &#8220;Long Train Runnin'&#8221;:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9SRRyD61ZhI?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1\" data-optanon-category=\"essential\" data-height=\"113\" data-width=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9SRRyD61ZhI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Doobie Brothers &#8211; Long Train Runnin&#8217; (1993 Remix) [Official Music Video]<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DoobiesOfficial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Doobie Brothers<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But you can&#8217;t argue with their methods. This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songhall.org\/news\/view\/songwriters_hall_of_fame_announces_2025_inductees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Johnston, McDonald and Simmons will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John McFee has been a member of the Doobies for the last 38 years. Asked about Johnston, McDonald and Simmons&#8217; songwriting, McFee laughed, &#8220;There&#8217;s a reason for the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction. I&#8217;m a writer, and I&#8217;ve had songs nominated for Grammys. I&#8217;m a member of the band. I&#8217;m not included in the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction. <em>That&#8217;s<\/em> how good these guys are!&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/752ea30d-0669-40fc-ae3d-6d55f89ace94\/thumbnail\/620x349\/a15412fe85306cf8bbca672d9813e58c\/the-doobie-brothers-mcfee-mcdonald-johnston-simmons.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6#\" alt=\"the-doobie-brothers-mcfee-mcdonald-johnston-simmons.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/752ea30d-0669-40fc-ae3d-6d55f89ace94\/thumbnail\/620x349\/a15412fe85306cf8bbca672d9813e58c\/the-doobie-brothers-mcfee-mcdonald-johnston-simmons.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/07\/752ea30d-0669-40fc-ae3d-6d55f89ace94\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/1a3fb1878f5a90d3463f3352af0aa1bd\/the-doobie-brothers-mcfee-mcdonald-johnston-simmons.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">The Doobie Brothers: John McFee, Michael McDonald, Tom Johnston and Patrick Simmons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Doobie members are joining such legendary songwriting teams as Lennon and McCartney, John and Taupin, and Holland-Dozier-Holland. &#8220;I think we all feel honored by it,&#8221; said Johnston. &#8220;When we started doing this many years ago, nobody was thinking about anything like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does recognition like this matter? &#8220;To be in the company of those people,&#8221; said McDonald, &#8220;is what matters. To think that you would ever, you know, be counted among them in any category is just too much to wish for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Songwriters Hall of Fame is a long way from the house on 12th Street in San Jose, California, where Simmons and Johnston started the band. &#8220;When we started out doing this, we were just trying to pay rent and put gas in your Volkswagen and get around, you know?&#8221; said Johnston. <\/p>\n<p>At biker bars like the Chateau Libert\u00e9, they honed their hard-driving Southern rock sound \u2026 a style that softened when Johnston left the band in the late &#8217;70s, and McDonald joined, bringing with him a more mellow feel that propelled the band to their multi-platinum selling album &#8220;Minute By Minute&#8221; in 1978.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;What a Fool Believes,&#8221; from the Doobie Brothers&#8217; album &#8220;Minute By Minute&#8221;: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ZK4_G4ZhvbA?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1\" data-optanon-category=\"essential\" data-height=\"113\" data-width=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZK4_G4ZhvbA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Doobie Brothers &#8211; What a Fool Believes (Official Audio)<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DoobiesOfficial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Doobie Brothers<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If the changes in personnel, sound and style created strains and rifts among some of the Doobies as younger men, a historic 50th anniversary tour in 2021, when these four united to play together for the first time, seemed to melt them away. Simmons said, &#8220;Michael came to do a few shows with us, and stuck around!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I asked, &#8220;Somebody told me \u2026 &#8216;They&#8217;re getting along as well as ever. They&#8217;re enjoying being together as much as they ever have.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think they said they were getting along <em>in age<\/em> or something!&#8221; Simmons laughed. <\/p>\n<p>McFee said, &#8220;We all appreciate it more as time goes by, how lucky we are and all the good things that are a part of the band, you know?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And you suddenly realize, &#8216;I just gotta keep doing this as long as I can keep doing this,'&#8221; McDonald added. <\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s still the most joyful thing you can do? &#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; Johnston said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it&#8217;s that hour or two hours that we get on stage where we actually feel like we&#8217;re in our 20s again,&#8221; McDonald said. &#8220;The rest of the day, we pretty much feel 75!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That feeling sparked a new studio album, &#8220;Walk This Road,&#8221; and another Doobies milestone: Simmons, Johnston and McDonald all recording together in the studio for the first time ever. <\/p>\n<p>McDonald said, &#8220;Originally it was kind of like, &#8216;Hey, you guys are doing this first album together in a long time. You&#8217;ve been together over the years, 50 years. And you&#8217;ve walked this road together, you know? Let&#8217;s write a song about that.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ve all made mistakes,&#8221; Simmons laughed. &#8220;We all have things that we wish we&#8217;d made some different choices at times. And the choices we made, and you look back on that, and you go, &#8216;Oh gosh, hopefully I learned something!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Redemption, unity, cohesion \u2013 not just good themes, but Hall-of-Fame-worthy ones, relevant for the Doobie Brothers, and for all of us. <\/p>\n<p>McDonald said, &#8220;We all live on this one tiny, little blue ball. We&#8217;re all walking down the same road. Just by virtue of that, you know? And we&#8217;re gonna have to learn to get along with each other and listen to each other, you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simmons, 76 years young remarked, &#8220;This could be the start of something really great!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Worth a chuckle perhaps \u2013 as the Doobie Brothers ponder more than 50 years together. <\/p>\n<p>Asked how long this will go on, McDonald replied, &#8220;That&#8217;s anybody&#8217;s guess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re a Seventies band in a whole different sense now!&#8221; laughed McFee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEB EXTRA: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-the-doobie-brothers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Extended interview &#8211; The Doobie Brothers (Video)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>To hear the title track &#8220;Walk This Road&#8221; by the Doobie Brothers (featuring Mavis Staples), click on the video player below:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Cq6HvgClzGI?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1\" data-optanon-category=\"essential\" data-height=\"113\" data-width=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Cq6HvgClzGI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Doobie Brothers &#8211; Walk This Road (feat. Mavis Staples) (Vinyl Visualizer)<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DoobiesOfficial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Doobie Brothers<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>Story produced by Gabriel Falcon. 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