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

Love then took to the stage, joining current Beach Boys guitarists Christian Love, John Wedemeyer, Brian Eichenberger and ...

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

The Doobie Brothers have a new album with Michael McDonald, a summer tour and songwriting honors on the docket. The band ...

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 ...

"A band like ours," said Patrick Simmons, "is a little different than a lot of bands, I think." The Doobie Brothers are more than a "little different," selling more than 50 million albums over the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...