The Doobie Brothers have walked, run, and smoked down the highway for a very long time. Over 50 years of mileage, to be exact ...

Fifty-three years since their first hit single, “Listen to the Music ,” raced up the charts in 1972, the Doobie Brothers are ...

The Doobies will be the 10th collective of three or more songwriters to be inducted. Eight of them are performing groups. The ...

Love, a founder member of The Beach Boys, was inducted alongside music legends George Clinton, Michael McDonald and The ...

With a new batch of fans discovering classics like "Black Water" and "Listen to the Music," the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers ...

In a Nashville rehearsal studio, the Doobie Brothers are getting ready for ... of "Takin' It to the Streets"), sometimes, says Patrick Simmons (who wrote the band's first #1 hit, "Black Water ...

Patrick Simmons knows better than to even try to guesstimate how many gigs he’s played — 55 years of ’em, of course, as part of the Doobie Brothers. It’s a tally that’s only being added ...

Patrick Simmons of The Doobie Brothers (Photo by Anne Jacko/CC BY-SA 2.0) Fast forward nearly three-quarters of a century and the 75-year-old musician has enjoyed a 50-year-run and counting with ...

I just thought, ‘That’s too much for some people,’ ” said Patrick Simmons ... I get it.’ ” Simmons is 75, and he’s still playing. This summer the Doobie Brothers are touring ...

Now that’s the one that would make any member of The Doobie Brothers stop. “I never thought that would happen. I just thought, ‘That’s too much for some people,’” said Patrick Simmons ...

With a standing ovation as they took their final bows, an upcoming brand new album, and a documentary retrospective, The Doobie Brothers proved Patrick Simmons’s lyrics prophetic — they’ve ...

Patrick Simmons performs with other members of The Doobie Brothers at Ravinia Park Tuesday, June 30, 2015, in Highland Park, Ill. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) “Tommy and I are basically ...