Doobie Brothers celebrate 50th anniversary with new album and delayed tour

The band's second album, "Toulouse Street," with the hits "Listen to the Music" and "Jesus Is Just Alright," will reach its milestone 50th anniversary in 2022.

"We had everything going and it got dumped on by the pandemic, which kind of sucked," Johnston told The Associated Press in an interview at the group's rehearsal space as they prepared for the tour. "We did the virtual induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, that was pretty much it. Then it was a year of every day's Thursday and nothing ever changes. It was pretty much a lost year." They're trying to make up for it with the tour that finally launched Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa, continues Tuesday in Milwaukee, and runs through late October, with previously scrapped dates rebooked for the summer of 2022.