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Race fans attending the Food City 500 are in for a treat as they “Listen to the Music” during The Doobie Brothers Pre-Race concert on Sunday, April 17 at Bristol Motor Speedway. The four-time GRAMMY Award-winning band will bring their powerhouse rock n’ roll to one of NASCAR’s biggest races. With iconic hits such as “China Grove,” “Long Train Runnin,’” “Listen to the Music” and “Black Water,” The Doobie Brothers will get the race day party started. Continue Reading →
Pictured (Left to Right): John McFee, The Doobie Brothers; Katie Poppert, VP of Programs Love Hope Strength Foundation; Tom Johnston, The Doobie Brothers; Tami Munroe, Love Hope Strength Volunteer; Patrick Simmons, The Doobie Brothers; Todd Poppert, Love Hope Strength Volunteer.
The Doobie Brothers celebrated the success of their 2015 tour partnership with the Love Hope Strength Foundation by garnering a potentially life-saving bone marrow match between a blood cancer patient and one of their fans. Love Hope Strength joined forces with The Doobie Brothers in the summer of 2015 adding their “Get On The List” registry to several shows across the country. With the help of The Doobie Brothers and other supporting artists, Love Hope Strength has gained 36,940 registrations and 710 matches on the National Bone Marrow Registry this year to date. This match resulted from a fan who registered at the band’s performance at Ocean City Bikefest in Ocean City, MD in September.
The Doobie Brothers announce the addition of Bill Payne as resident keyboard player in their touring band. Payne is considered to be one of the finest American piano rock and blues players in the world, known for his own band, Little Feat, as well as performing on numerous studio albums for other artists including Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Pink Floyd, Bob Seger and more. He previously collaborated with The Doobie Brothers both in the studio and on the road; a relationship the band is looking forward to rekindling.
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Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHSF), the world’s leading rock and roll foundation, is proud to announce a new programmatic partnership with the iconic rock band The Doobie Brothers. LHSF will be onsite at select summer shows helping concert goers to Get on the List during their 2015 national tour.
Photo credit: Patrice Majors
The Doobie Brothers recorded some of the band’s most iconic music during their dozen years with Warner Bros. Records, scoring major hits with timeless tunes like “Long Train Runnin’,” “Black Water,” and “Takin’ It To The Streets.” With 46 million albums sold during their outstanding career, The Doobie Brothers have nothing left to prove, but this summer the group is still “Rockin’ Down the Highway” as they tour North America.
Rhino salutes the group with a new 10-CD boxed set that features some of the band’s greatest albums. THE WARNER BROS. YEARS 1971-1983 will be available on July 24 for a list price of $79.98.
The set includes more than 110 songs from 10 albums: The Doobie Brothers The Captain And Me What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits Stampede Minute By Minute One Step Closer (1980), and Farwell Tour (1983).
The Doobie Brothers started out in 1969 as a northern California bar band. In 1970 the band signed with Warner Bros. and in 1971 released its self-titled debut album. It was the beginning of a 12-year streak in which The Doobies released ten new albums. The group’s commercial breakthrough came with its sophomore effort, Toulouse Street, which boasted popular tracks like “Listen To The Music” and “Jesus Is Just Alright.” The string of hits continued on The Captain And Me with “Long Train Runnin’” and the classic “China Grove.” The Doobie Brothers notched their first #1 in the funky “Black Water” from their 1974 album What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits.
In 1975, the band began to expand Pat Simmons’ and Tom Johnston’s rock and country influences with R&B and even scored a hit with its cover the Motown track, “Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While.)” In 1976, with the addition of Michael McDonald to the band, they introduced more R&B and keyboards to their rocking sound and the hits kept rolling with the title track from Takin’ It To The Streets. In 1979, The Doobie Brothers won four Grammy® Awards on the strength of its triple-platinum album, Minute By Minute. The final disc in this new collection is the 1983 live album Farewell Tour, which includes performances of songs that spanned the band’s entire history to that point. This 10 CD Set represents an outstanding body of work from one of America’s most popular bands.
L-R: John Cowan (bass/bgd vocals), Patrick Simmons, Jerrod Niemann, and John McFee. Photo credit: Jeremy Denton
The Doobie Brothers performed with Jerrod Niemann at The Woods Amphitheater at Fontanel Saturday, May 9th. The Sony Music Nashville label-mates recently collaborated on The Doobie Brothers latest album, Southbound, out November 4th. Patrick Simmons and Niemann traded vocals on the 1975 classic “South City Midnight Lady” with Niemann also lending vocals on “Black Water”.
Grab your lava lamps and your bellbottoms, this debut album from Dylan McDonald And The Avians will make you feel like you’ve taken a rocket ship ride back to the 70s in this retro-infused pop release entitled ‘Fueled By Dreams Of The Future’. Continue Reading →
Pictured Left to Right: Producer – David Lyndon Huff, Richlyn Marketing Publicist – Nicole Cochran, Doobie Brother Patrick Simmons, Richlyn Marketing Founder – Kate Richardson, Doobie Brothers Tom Johnston, and John McFee.
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Richlyn Marketing announces the addition of GRAMMY Award-winning rock and roll band The Doobie Brothers to its client roster. Richlyn Marketing will coordinate the marketing and public relations for the upcoming release of The Doobie Brothers’ highly-anticipated new album on Sony Music Nashville, as well as handle all tour press. For the project, The Doobie Brothers are recording their iconic hits with country music’s top artists, including Brad Paisley, Sara Evans, Toby Keith, Zac Brown Band, Chris Young, Jerrod Neimann, Love & Theft and more.
Long-time Doobie Brothers’ manager Bruce Cohn and record producer David Lyndon Huff are spearheading the project. “The Doobie Brothers are such an important band in the history of music,” Huff says. “The hits transcend time, so with this new collection we are just adding modern production and collaborations with the country stars.”
Katharine Richardson, partner of Richlyn Marketing, adds, “We could not be more excited to be a part of this landmark project. I am personally a longtime fan, so it is a dream come true to be working with this brilliant band. We are honored to join their team.”
About Richlyn Marketing
Richlyn Marketing was established by Katharine Richardson and Lynn Tinsey in 2007 and has become a vital force in the Nashville community and beyond. In addition to The Doobie Brothers, other clients include Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Oates, Martin Guitar, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, New York Times best-selling author Sharon M. Draper and ESPN analyst Doug Glanville.
About The Doobie Brothers
The Doobie Brothers have been delivering mind-blowing, roots-based, harmony-laden, guitar-driven rock and roll for over four decades, selling more than 40 million albums and winning four GRAMMY awards. Boasting one of the most loyal fan bases in music, the band continues to write and record new material and tour the world. In 2011, the band marked a new chapter, filming a CMT Crossroads special with superstar Luke Bryan and appearing for the first time on the Grand Ole Opry. Their relationship with Nashville continues to unfold with the upcoming 2014 release of a new album on Sony Music Nashville.
For more information on The Doobie Brothers visit www.DoobieBros.com.
