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Inspired with the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Depressed Hearts Club Music group, Daughters of Albion had taken a hook-laden, harmony-filled method of late-’60s rock and roll. Representing the mixed initiatives of vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Greg Dempsey and vocalist Kathy Yesse, Daughters of Albion didn’t match critical targets. Billboard defined the duo as “a …

Best known because the Doobie Brothers’ saxophone participant from 1979-1982 (and once again in 1989-1990 and 1995), Cornelius Bumpus found the group after stints with Bobby Freeman along with a re-formed Moby Grape. Bumpus initial struck from his own being a documenting artist following the Doobies’ break up in 1982, …

Guitarist Patrick Simmons joined the Doobie Brothers in 1970 and was an instrumental element in the band’s ascension from a membership band performing biker pubs to a worldwide success story within the ’70s, offering an incredible number of albums and charting a succession of strike songs. Delivered on Oct 19, …