Doobie Brothers Add 11 New Dates to Fiftieth-Anniversary Tour

The Doobie Brothers have added 11 extra dates to their upcoming Fiftieth-anniversary tour. New live shows will now happen in cities together with Chicago, Sacramento, Phoenix, Dallas and Nashville.

A whole listing of dates is out there on the band’s web site. All tickets can be obtainable for buy beginning April 8. The Fiftieth-anniversary tour launched final summer season, regardless that it was initially scheduled to happen in 2020.

Reveals begin on Might 13 in Las Vegas and run by Oct. 12 in Nashville.

“It’s a crapshoot, actually, whether or not we’ll make it to the tip of this or not, however I hope we do,” Tom Johnston advised the Related Press on the time, acknowledging that the pandemic might proceed to change touring plans. Not lengthy after the tour began, the band postponed 4 reveals when “a member of their touring personnel” examined optimistic for COVID-19.

The upcoming tour is especially notable for the presence of Michael McDonald, who can be performing within the lineup for the primary time in 25 years.

“With any band, however particularly one on the bigger measurement, you wish to search for the place you is usually a contribution to the entire thing,” McDonald advised Rolling Stone at first of 2020. “And I do know my job as singing can be simply what it’s. I’ll sing the songs that I sing after which simply do backgrounds. I’m actually trying ahead to that. I’m trying ahead to having much less duty as a lead singer [than] I do with my band. Whenever you’re out on the street for months, there’s at all times these durations of time the place you’re gasping for air and hoping your voice will present up. It’s going to be enjoyable for me to simply sing a few songs an evening.”