Toulouse Street (Remaster) The Doobie Brothers

• 1 Listen To The Music (2016 Remastered) 04:48
• 2 Rockin' Down The Highway (2016 Remastered) 03:23
• 3 Mamaloi (2016 Remastered) 02:30
• 4 Toulouse Street (2016 Remastered) 03:21
• 5 Cotton Mouth (2016 Remastered) 03:42
• 6 Don't Start Me To Talkin' (2016 Remastered) 02:44
• 7 Jesus Is Just Alright With Me (2016 Remastered) 04:35
• 8 White Sun (2016 Remastered) 02:31
• 9 Disciple (2016 Remastered) 06:44
• 10 Snake Man (2016 Remastered) 01:35
• Total Runtime 35:53

Info for Toulouse Street (Remaster)

A sophomore triumph, the Doobie Brothers’ Toulouse Street is all about kicking back, lighting one up, and surrendering to the grooves. If you’ve ever flicked on an FM radio, you know the instantly gratifying harmonies of “Listen to the Music” and gospel rush of “Jesus Is Just Alright.” Each Top 40 single has proved timeless by way of remaining radio staples that still receive regular airplay. The 1972 album’s other eight songs are equally great. This is the musical junction at which Southern, Appalachian, and Northern crossroads intersect.

Now, thanks to pristine remastering from the original analog master tapes, the Doobie Brothers’ defining moment sounds better than ever. Staggering clarity and revealing transparency allows you to hear into the band’s dual lead guitar, binary vocalist, and twin drummer setup. That’s right—two guitarists, two vocalists, and two drummers, all presented in full-range glory. Talk about rockin' down the highway!

„Toulouse Street was the album by which most of their fans began discovering the Doobie Brothers, and it has retained a lot of its freshness over the decades. Producer Ted Templeman was attuned to the slightly heavier and more Southern style the band wanted to work toward on this, their second album, and the results were not only profitable -- including a platinum record award -- but artistically impeccable. Toulouse Street is actually pretty close in style and sound at various points to what the Eagles were doing during the same period, except that the Doobies threw jazz and R&B into the mix, as well as country, folk, and bluegrass elements, and (surprise!) ended up just about as ubiquitous as the Eagles in peoples' record collections, especially in the wake of the singles 'Listen to the Music' and 'Jesus Is Just Alright.' But those two singles represented only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what this group had to offer, as purchasers of the album discovered even on the singles -- both songs appear here in distinctly longer versions, with more exposition and development, and in keeping with the ambitions that album cuts (even of popular numbers) were supposed to display in those days. Actually, 'Listen to the Music' (written by Tom Johnston) offers subtle use of phasing and other studio tricks that make its seemingly earthy, laid-back approach some of the most complex and contrived of the period. Johnston's 'Rockin' Down the Highway' shows the band working at a higher wattage and moving into Creedence Clearwater Revival territory, while 'Mamaloi' was Patrick Simmons' laid-back Caribbean idyll, and the title tune (also by Simmons) is a hauntingly beautiful ballad. The band then switches gears into swamp rock for 'Cotton Mouth' and takes a left turn into the Mississippi Delta for a version of Sonny Boy Williamson II's 'Don't Start Me Talkin'' before shifting into a gospel mode with 'Jesus Is Just Alright.' Johnston's nearly seven-minute 'Disciple' was the sort of soaring, bluesy hard rock workout that led to the group's comparison to the Allman Brothers Band, though their interlocking vocals were nearly as prominent as their crunching, surging double lead guitars and paired drummers. And it all still sounds astonishingly bracing decades later; it's still a keeper, and one of the most inviting and alluring albums of its era.“ (Bruce Eder, AMG)

Tom Johnston, guitars, vocals
Patrick Simmons, guitars, flute, vocals
Tiran Porter, bass, vocals
John (Little John) Hartman, drums, percussion
Michael Hossack, drums
Additional musicians:
Jerry Jumonville, tenor saxophone
Joe Lane Davis, baritone saxophone
Sherman Marshall Cyr, trumpet
Jon Robert Smith, tenor saxophone Bill Payne, piano, organ, keyboards Dave Shogren, bass and guitar on 'Toulouse Street'; vocals on 'White Sun' Ted Templeman, percussion

Recorded 1972 at Warner Brothers Studios, North Hollywood and Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco (tracks 4, 8 & 10)
Engineered by Stephen Barncard, Marty Cohn, Donn Landee
Produced by Ted Templeman

Digitally remastered

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