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Farewell Tour (album)

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Released
  
June, 1983

Length
  
67:06

Artist
  
The Doobie Brothers

Producer
  
Ted Templeman

Genre
  
Rock music

Recorded
  
1982

Farewell Tour (1983)
  
Cycles (1989)

Release date
  
June 1983

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

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The Doobie Brothers albums, Rock music albums

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Farewell Tour is the first live album by American rock band The Doobie Brothers, released in 1983. (See 1983 in music.) It documents the group's 1982 Farewell Tour and is a double album set.

Contents

By the early 1980s, the Doobie Brothers had evolved from the guitar-boogie sound under original band frontman Tom Johnston to a soulful keyboard-driven AOR sound under Michael McDonald. Despite the many personnel changes in the group, Patrick Simmons remained from the original incarnation of the group.

In 1982, Simmons decided to retire from the group after years of constant touring and recording. When the band decided to break up in light of his impending departure, Simmons encouraged the group to make one last tour during the summer of 1982 as a way of thanking the group's loyal fanbase. This tour became known as the "Farewell Tour."

The front cover shows Keith Knudsen cutting the strings on John McFee's guitar as a symbolic gesture. The last two songs on the album were recorded at the final concert of the tour in Berkeley, California, on September 11, 1982 with vocals by original lead vocalist and guitarist Tom Johnston. For a long time the album was available on CD only in Japan, but ultimately it was re-released on CD by Rhino/WEA on August 26, 2008.

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Track listing

  1. "Slippery St. Paul" (Simmons) [excerpt from The Doobie Brothers, 1971]
  2. "Takin' It to the Streets" (McDonald)
  3. "Jesus Is Just Alright" (Arthur Reid Reynolds)
  4. "Minute by Minute" (McDonald, Abrams)
  5. "Can't Let It Get Away" (McFee, Nicolette Larson, Simmons)
  6. "Listen to the Music" (Johnston)
  7. "Echoes of Love" (Simmons, Mitchell, Randle)
  8. "What a Fool Believes" (McDonald, Kenny Loggins)
  9. "Black Water" (Simmons)
  10. "You Belong to Me" (McDonald, Carly Simon)
  11. "Slat Key Soquel Rag" (Simmons)
  12. "Steamer Lane Breakdown" (Simmons)
  13. "South City Midnight Lady" (Simmons)
  14. "Olana" (McDonald)
  15. "Don't Start Me to Talkin'" ("Sonny Boy" Williamson)
  16. "Long Train Runnin'" (Johnston)
  17. "China Grove" (Johnston)
  18. "Can't Let It Get Away" and "Olana" are songs that the band had recorded in the studio but not released on albums. The studio version of "Can't Let It Get Away" was released only on a one-sided single in Japan in 1981, while the studio version of "Olana" remained unreleased until it appeared on Long Train Runnin': 1970-2000.

Personnel

  • Patrick Simmons - guitars, lead vocals
  • John McFee - guitars, pedal steel guitar, violin, vocals
  • Michael McDonald - keyboards, synthesizers, lead vocals
  • Cornelius Bumpus - saxophone, synthesizer, organ, vocals, lead vocal on "Jesus Is Just Alright"
  • Willie Weeks - bass, vocals
  • Keith Knudsen - drums, vocals, lead vocal on "Don't Start Me To Talkin'"
  • Chet McCracken - drums, vibraphone, marimbas
  • Bobby LaKind - congas, percussion, vocals

    • with Tom Johnston - guitar and lead vocals on "China Grove" and "Long Train Runnin'" (and "Slippery St. Paul")

    Dave Shogren & John Hartman appear, uncredited, on "Slippery St. Paul."

    Production

  • Producer: Ted Templeman
  • Conductor: Bobby LaKind

    • Songs

    1Slippery St Paul0:54
    2Takin' It to the Streets4:48
    3Jesus Is Just Alright4:41

    References

    Farewell Tour (album) Wikipedia
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