The Doobie Brothers are within the ultimate levels of finishing a brand new album with Michael McDonald, their first unique studio launch collectively since 1980’s One Step Nearer.
Pat Simmons supplied an replace on the LP in a message on Fb addressed to the band’s followers.
“We’re very near ending up an album’s value of recent songs,” the rocker revealed. “We’re fortunate as soon as once more to have John Shanks producing and Michael McDonald becoming a member of in with us on this one! Tom [Johnston], Michael, John and myself have composed an important bunch of songs that we’re actually pleased with and John McFee is known as a stand out on the tracks. It’s the primary time in 40 years that Michael has recorded an entire album with the band and in my humble opinion it’s turning out to be a number of the greatest music we’ve ever made collectively!”
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McDonald rejoined the band for his or her fiftieth anniversary tour, a trek initially scheduled for 2020, which ultimately launched the next 12 months. The singer’s final contribution to a Doobie Brothers album got here in 2014, when he supplied vocals and keyboards to a handful of songs on Southbound. That LP was made up of reimagined Doobie Brothers classics.
Whereas Simmons didn’t present a precise timetable for the brand new album’s arrival, he famous that the band was “taking pictures for a spring/summer season launch.”
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In his message on social media, Simmons revealed that the band could be “going into rehearsals someday in Might.”
“I’m hoping we’ll be capable of debut just a few of our new songs [on the tour],” he added. “There’s some actually excessive vitality stuff that can be enjoyable for us to play and hopefully work properly with our higher identified tunes. We’ll preserve you posted and let you know the way that’s workin’ out.”
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