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

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

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

Ahead of their U.S. tour, the Doobie Brothers played to a crowd of just over 1,000 fans in New York to ring in latest album ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Funk innovator George Clinton, The Doobie Brothers‘ Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald and Patrick Simmons and The Beach Boys‘ Mike Love are among this year’s inductees of the Songwriters Hall ...

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 ...