In a Nashville rehearsal studio, the Doobie Brothers are getting ready for another summer tour, playing “Long Train Runnin’.” More than 50 years in, and 48 million albums sold, they still want to be sure they sound sharp, even on hits they’ve played thousands of times.
It was 1973, when co-founder Tom Johnston wrote down words for a riff they’d been jamming to for years in bars and clubs.
Down around the corner Half a mile from here See them long trains runnin’ And you watch ’em disappear Without love Where would you be now? (Without lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ve)…