Tiny Desk Live performance : NPR

There’s usually a second throughout a Tiny Desk live performance when an artist realizes that taking part in in an workplace was both the proper or incorrect factor to do. After beginning the set with “Takin’ It to the Streets,” considered one of The Doobie Brothers‘ many hits, Tom Johnston tells the viewers, “It is not like this at gigs. We simply performed up in New York at Jones Seashore final night time and y’all are outdoing them. It is fairly cool.” For a band as completed as this to nonetheless encounter new experiences as performers says rather a lot concerning the power bouncing across the partitions of NPR headquarters.

With over 50 years within the music enterprise, plus quite a few awards and accolades — together with inductions into the Rock & Roll and Songwriters Corridor of Fame — Johnston, Michael McDonald, Patrick Simmons and John McFee do not have something extra to show. However the residing members of The Doobie Brothers reunited this yr and launched Stroll This Highway. To help the brand new album, they hit the highway and stopped by the Desk to play a brand new tune, “Angels & Mercy.” However they did not go away with out giving us a pair extra hits and had the entire crowd singing alongside to “Black Water” and “Take heed to the Music.”

SET LIST

• “Takin’ It to the Streets” 
• “Black Water” 
• “Angels & Mercy”
• “Take heed to the Music” 

MUSICIANS

• Michael McDonald: vocals, keys, mandolin
• Tom Johnston: vocals, guitar
• Patrick Simmons: vocals, guitar 
• John McFee: vocals, guitar, violin 
• John Cowan: bass, background vocals
• Marc Russo: sax
• Marc Quiñones: conga, percussion, background vocals
• Ed Toth: drums

TINY DESK TEAM

• Producer: Bobby Carter
• Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
• Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
• Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Kara Body, Sofia Seidel
• Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
• Manufacturing Assistants: Dhanika Pineda, Dora Levite
• Photographer: Grace Raver
• Tiny Desk Group: Josh Newell, Ashley Pointer
• Collection Editor: Lars Gotrich
• Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
• Government Director: Sonali Mehta
• Collection Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton