{"id":6913,"date":"2025-01-23T10:28:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T10:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=6913"},"modified":"2025-01-23T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T10:28:42","slug":"single-review-it-keeps-you-runnin-doobie-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/single-review-it-keeps-you-runnin-doobie-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;It Keeps You Runnin'&#8221; &#8211; Doobie Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/5wFdcY9O6cEn1PL6V3AEmu?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6885-1020x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6885-1020x1024.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6885-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6885-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6885-768x771.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6885-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6885.jpg 1059w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>In honour of the epic news that The Doobie Brothers and Michael McDonald are putting out a new album after 40 years I thought I\u2019d revisit this classic track from 1976.<br \/><br \/>What do I like about this song?<br \/><br \/>Well.<br \/><br \/>EVERYTHING!<br \/><br \/>The first time I ever heard it was when I watched Forrest Gump. It was part of a montage scene in the film where Forrest runs across America, and it was tucked in among \u201cRunning On Empty\u201d by Jackson Browne and \u201cGo Your Own Way\u201d by but just hearing this &#8211; the chorus &#8211; just hit me. Michael McDonald\u2019s vocal tone is unmistakeable but matched up with the layered close harmony R&amp;B vocals it was just beautiful. That was all it took. I had the soundtrack for the film for a while, I knew about The Doobie Brothers work from \u201cLong Train Running\u201d (Another favourite) but this to me was just next level.<br \/><br \/>From the beginning of the song when you hear that analogue drum machine and the keyboard being played you know you\u2019re onto something, the bass playing a great run of notes, and guitar coming in with the drums on top..<br \/><br \/>Wow.<br \/><br \/>Lyrically it talks about how the writer is trying to convey his love but the recipient is running away from it, and that she\u2019s afraid of being loved possibly because of past hurt and not wanting to be hurt again.<br \/><br \/>Given the point in the film where this song is used that fits and I must salute Joel Sill for this, he was the music supervisor on the film.<br \/><br \/>If you\u2019ve never seen Forrest Gump it\u2019s a must watch!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honour of the epic news that The Doobie Brothers and Michael McDonald are putting out a new album after 40 years I thought I\u2019d revisit this classic track from 1976. What do I like about this song? Well. EVERYTHING! The first time I ever heard it was when I watched Forrest Gump. It was &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,42,118,181,129,98,256,52,139,31,132,30,292,37,142,233,150,175,287,243,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americana","category-band","category-bass","category-blues","category-drums","category-film","category-funk","category-guitar","category-jazz","category-keyboards","category-lyricist","category-music","category-organ","category-piano","category-producer","category-rhodes","category-songwriter","category-soul","category-track-of-the-day","category-u-s","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6915,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions\/6915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}