“A Night with the Doobie Brothers: A Raw Reunion on the Ragged Edge of Rock”** August 31, 2023, Franklin, TN
They tell me it’s been fifty years. Fifty years of that highway rockin’, fifty years of those tunes that taste like the back-alley bars and the late-night rumbles. The Doobie Brothers, they’re calling it a tour. But we all know it’s more than that. It’s a summoning, a wild call to those who still have that fire burning, even if it’s buried deep under the years.
Franklin, TN, that’s where they’re heading. August 31, 2023. A date, a place, but it’s more. It’s a chance, a moment. It’s the opening of a door that leads back to a time when life was a ragged edge, and we danced on it, laughing and cursing.
Johnston, Simmons, McFee, McDonald – names like shots of whiskey, strong and biting. They’re back together, not just for the music but for us. They’re reaching out to pull us back into that place where we lived once, where we were real and raw and alive.
The First Bank Amphitheater, it’s just a place, but on that night, it’s going to be a world. A world where the music doesn’t just play; it lives. It breathes. It grabs you by the soul and shakes you until you remember what it’s like to truly feel.
“We are thrilled to be back on the road,” says Johnston. Thrilled. A small word for such a big thing. They’re thrilled, and we’re hungry. Hungry for those notes, those words, those songs that are more than sounds. They’re the pieces of our lives.
So, come to Franklin. Not just to hear but to live. Come to be part of something that’s more real than all the plastic and pretense that fills our days. Come to remember what it’s like to be human, to be alive, to be part of something that’s bigger and wilder and more beautiful than anything you can find in the safe, tame world.
Come to the Doobie Brothers. Come to life.
