The Doobie Brothers are within the ultimate phases of finishing a brand new album with Michael McDonald, their first unique studio unencumber in combination since 1980’s One Step Nearer.
Pat Simmons equipped an replace at the LP in a message on Fb addressed to the band’s enthusiasts.
“We’re very with reference to completing up an album’s value of recent songs,” the rocker printed. “We’re fortunate as soon as once more to have John Shanks generating and Michael McDonald becoming a member of in with us in this one! Tom [Johnston], Michael, John and myself have composed an ideal bunch of songs that we’re truly happy with and John McFee is truly a stand out at 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 one of the crucial best possible song we’ve ever made in combination!”
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McDonald rejoined the band for his or her fiftieth anniversary excursion, a trek initially scheduled for 2020, which sooner or later introduced the next yr. The singer’s final contribution to a Doobie Brothers album got here in 2014, when he equipped vocals and keyboards to a handful of songs on Southbound. That LP was once made up of reimagined Doobie Brothers classics.
Whilst Simmons didn’t supply a precise timetable for the brand new album’s arrival, he famous that the band was once “capturing for a spring/summer season unencumber.”
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In his message on social media, Simmons printed that the band can be “going into rehearsals someday in Might.”
“I’m hoping we’ll be capable of debut a couple of of our new songs [on the tour],” he added. “There’s some truly prime power stuff that will probably be amusing for us to play and with a bit of luck paintings neatly with our higher identified tunes. We’ll stay you posted and can help you understand how that’s workin’ out.”
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