DOOBIE BROTHERS – Minute By Minute (Mobile Fidelity Numbered 45RPM Edition) – 2LP – Deluxe 180g Vinyl [OCT 17]

2LP – Limited Numbered-Edition 180g 45RPM Black Vinylhoused in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing.

The Doobie Brothers create the template for Yacht Rock: Grammy-winning smash Minute by Minute features What a Fool Believes, superb Harmonies, and soulful melodies

Sourced from the original analog master tapes and given extra groove space: Mobile Fidelitys Numbered-Edition 180g 45RPM 2LP set of the 1978 album plays with incredible openness and depth.

Minute by Minute saved the Doobie Brothers even as it nearly broke the band. Created when the group felt uncertain of its place in the music world, the album catapulted the sextet to new commercial heights and signaled a distinct change in direction that the mainstream wholeheartedly embraced. Having sold more than three million copies, the four-time Grammy-winning Minute by Minute remains a pop landmark. Perhaps the Doobie Brothers didnt invent yacht rock with the warm, hook-laden What a Fool Believes and other similarly minded cuts on the radio-friendly Minute by Minute look to the Top 20 title track, relaxed Open Your Eyes, and horn-accompanied Dependin on You for further evidence but the band essentially created the template many others would follow.

Sourced from the original master tapes, housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, Mobile Fidelitys numbered-edition reissue presents the 1978 effort on 180g 45RPM 2LP for the first time on what is the definitive-sounding vinyl version of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers biggest-selling record.

Produced by Ted Templeman, Minute by Minute features non-congested openness, snappy rhythms, wonderful tonal balance, exceptionally clear vocals, and the right equilibrium of fine polishand bluesy grit. Those facets emerge with previously unrealised definition, transparency, smoothness, and solidity on this reissue. A Sweet Feelin, for certain.

Tracklist:

Side One:
1. Here to Love You
2. What a Fool Believes
3. Minute by Minute

Side Two:
1. Dependin on You
2. Dont Stop to Watch the Wheels

Side Three:
1. Open Your Eyes
2. Sweet Feelin
3. Steamer Lane Breakdown

Side Four:
1. You Never Change
2. How Do the Fools Survive?