The Doobie Brothers - Southbound (2014)
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Label: Sony Music/Arista Nashville | # 88843098812 | Time: 00:49:24
Classic Rock, Boogie Rock, Soft Rock, Country Rock, Country, Soul
Four-time Grammy-winning band The Doobie Brothers (with Michael McDonald) have teamed up with some of country music's biggest stars for 'Southbound', an album of all-new recordings of the band's
hits. The studio lineup harkens back to the Doobie Brothers' earliest days. Fellow singer-songwriter-guitarist-lead-vocalists Patrick Simmons and Tom Johnston continue to front the group, while multi-instrumentalist John McFee's history with the Brothers dates back to 1978, after his stint with Southern Pacific. Michael McDonald returns to The Doobie Brothers for this project, which invites fans to once again "Listen to the Music" in a whole new way.
Country stars Blake Shelton, Casey James, Charlie Worsham, Johnnyswim's Amanda Sudano Ramirez, and Tyler Farr were among the first roster of artists choosing their favorite Doobie songs to record with the band, with selected tracks featuring special instrumental contributions from Hunter Hayes and Vince Gill. Other collaborators include Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Zac Brown Band, Sara Evans, Chris Young, Jerrod Niemann, and Love and Theft. In choosing the album title, The Doobie Brothers' Tom Johnston remarked, "Southbound seemed like the perfect name of this collaboration project with all these dynamic country artists. The band has a lot of roots, both musically and lyrically, from the South such as blues, country, R&B, and folk. To us it was a natural fit that it be called Southbound."
A throwback to the golden age of star-studded tributes, the Doobie Brothers' 2014 Southbound essentially follows the same playbook as the Beach Boys' 1996 album Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1: team up a
rock band with a bunch of contemporary country stars to sing the hits everybody knows and loves. Where Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1 was an uneasy fit - the Beach Boys are many things but a country band is not one of them - Southbound feels smooth and natural, possibly because nobody involved dared to mess much with the original arrangements, a move that underscores how this is very much a record where singers are sitting in with the Doobies and not the other way around. Whenever there's a flash of modernization, it is minimal, as on the light decorative rhythmic loops and mandolin samples on "Listen to the Music," where Blake Shelton takes co-lead with Tom Johnston as Hunter Hayes lays down some beefy guitar. Johnston and Patrick Simmons dominate Southbound because their songs lend themselves better to country singers; they're either driving rockers or backwoods-inflected boogie, settings that are comfortable for neo-jam bands (Zac Brown Band, "Black Water"), swaggering cowboys (Toby Keith, "Long Train Runnin'" and Chris Young, "China Grove"), modern-day strummers (Jerrod Niemann, "South City Midnight Lady"), and arena country heroes (Brad Paisley, "Rockin' Down the Highway"). That said, the three Michael McDonald tunes - "What a Fool Believes" (Sara Evans), "Takin' It to the Streets" (Love and Theft), "You Belong to Me" (Amanda Sudano Ramirez, featuring Vince Gill on guitar) - all feel at home because this is a Doobie Brothers album, after all, and they've long ago found a way to reconcile the two sides of their musical personality. If there isn't much reinvention to be found on Southbound, that's fine: the record was meant as an open-hearted celebration of the Doobies' biggest hits and that's precisely what it delivers.
02. with Blake Shelton & Hunter Hayes - Listen to the Music (4:20)
03. with Sara Evans - What a Fool Believes (4:02)
04. with Toby Keith & Huey Lewis - Long Train Runnin' (3:33)
05. with Chris Young - China Grove (3:22)
06. with Love and Theft - Takin' It To the Streets (4:41)
07. with Casey James - Jesus is Just Alright (4:07)
08. with Brad Paisley - Rockin' Down the Highway (3:34)
09. with Tyler Farr - Take Me in Your Arms (3:46)
10. with Jerrod Niemann - South City Midnight Lady (4:49)
11. with Amanda Sudano Ramirez & Vince Gill - You Belong to Me (3:44)
12. with Charlie Worsham - Nobody Intro (0:46)
13. with Charlie Worsham - Nobody (4:20)Download link:
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