Stampede

Studio album by

Released

April 25, 1975

Recorded

September 9 - October 6, 1974

Studio

Warner Bros. Studios, North Hollywood, CA, Burbank Studios, Burbank, CA, Curlom Studios, Chicago, IL and The Record Plant, Sausalito, CA. 'I Been Workin' on You' recorded at Creative Workshop, Nashville, TN

Genre

Rock

Length

40:50

Label

Warner Bros.

Producer

Ted Templeman

The Doobie Brothers chronology

What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
(1974)

Stampede
(1975)

Takin' It to the Streets
(1976)

Singles from Stampede

'Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me)' / 'Slat Key Soquel Rag'
Released: April 23, 1975
'Sweet Maxine' / 'Double Dealin' Four Flusher'
Released: July 8, 1975
'I Cheat the Hangman' / 'Music Man'
Released: November 12, 1975

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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]
The Great Rock Discography	5/10^[3]
Rolling Stone	(mixed)^[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[5]

Stampede is the fifth studio album by American rock band The Doobie Brothers. The album was released on April 25, 1975, by Warner Bros. Records. It was the final album by the band before Michael McDonald replaced Tom Johnston as lead vocalist and primary songwriter. The album has been certified gold by the RIAA.

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Recording and content[edit]

Stampede showed the band diversifying elements of their sound more than ever before, combining elements of their old sound as well as country-rock, funk and folk music. Many guest musicians contributed on the album including Maria Muldaur, Ry Cooder and Curtis Mayfield.

This was the first album featuring Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter as a full-fledged member of the band. He had previously played on a couple of songs as a guest on the two previous albums and toured with the band prior to this one.

The first and most successful single released from this album was 'Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me)' on April 23, 1975, a classic Motown tune written by the legendary songwriting trio of Holland-Dozier-Holland. Tom Johnston had wanted to record the song for several years. 'I thought that would be a killer track to cover,' he said. 'It's probably one of my favorite songs of all time. I thought our version came out great.'

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The next single, released on July 8, 1975, was 'Sweet Maxine' which was more akin to the Doobie Brothers' earlier hits style-wise. 'Pat wrote the music to this and I wrote the words, ' Johnston recalled. 'And Billy Payne had a lot to do with the sound of the song, because of his incredible keyboard playing.' The track stalled at #40 on the Billboard charts.

The third and final single was Patrick Simmons' 'I Cheat the Hangman', released November 12, 1975. It is a somber outlaw ballad that was inspired by the story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. 'It's about a ghost returning to his home after the Civil War and not realizing he's dead,' said Simmons about the song. The album version of the song is a progressive rock-style composition ending in a twisted collage of strings, horns and synthesizers made to sound like ghostly wails. 'We'd cut the track, and we kicked around how to develop the ending-I thought about synthesizers and guitar solos. Ted [Templeman] got to thinking about it, and he ran it past [arranger] Nick DeCaro for some orchestration ideas. 'Night on Bald Mountain' by Mussorgsky really inspired the wildness of the strings, and Nick came up with the chorale thing at the end.' The ambitious 'I Cheat the Hangman' only managed to reach #60 on the music charts.^[6]

'Neal's Fandango' was inspired by the Santa Cruz mountains and was an homage to Neal Cassady, Merry Prankster bus driver and former Jack Kerouac sidekick in On The Road. It was occasionally played on San Francisco Bay Area classic rock station KFOX 'K-FOX' (that means KUFX) because of the Doobie Brothers' South Bay roots.

Track listing[edit]

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Vocals	Length
1.	'Sweet Maxine'	Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons	Johnston	4:26
2.	'Neal's Fandango'	Simmons	Simmons	3:20^{[nb 1]}
3.	'Texas Lullaby'	Johnston	Johnston	5:00
4.	'Music Man'	Johnston	Johnston	3:34
5.	'Slack Key Soquel Rag^{[nb 2]}'	Simmons	instrumental	1:54

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Vocals	Length
6.	'Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me)'	Holland–Dozier–Holland	Johnston	3:39
7.	'I Cheat the Hangman'	Simmons	Simmons	6:38
8.	'Précis'	Jeff Baxter	instrumental	0:56
9.	'Rainy Day Crossroad Blues'	Johnston	Johnston	3:45
10.	'I Been Workin' on You'	Johnston	Johnston	4:22
11.	'Double Dealin' Four Flusher'	Simmons	Simmons, Knudsen, Johnston	3:30

Personnel[edit]

The Doobie Brothers:

Tom Johnston – guitars, lead and backing vocals
Patrick Simmons – guitars, lead and

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