The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me ( 1973 )

 

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Vocals	Length
1.	"Natural Thing"	Tom Johnston	Tom Johnston	3:17
2.	"Long Train Runnin'"	Johnston	Johnston	3:25
3.	"China Grove"	Johnston	Johnston	3:14
4.	"Dark Eyed Cajun Woman"	Johnston	Johnston	4:12
5.	"Clear as the Driven Snow"	Patrick Simmons	Pat Simmons	5:18

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Vocals	Length
6.	"Without You"	John Hartman, Michael Hossack, Johnston, Tiran Porter, Simmons	Johnston, Simmons	4:58
7.	"South City Midnight Lady"	Simmons	Simmons	5:27
8.	"Evil Woman"	Hartman, Hossack, Johnston, Porter, Simmons	Simmons	3:17
9.	"Busted Down Around O'Connelly Corners"	James Earl Luft	Instrumental	0:48
10.	"Ukiah"	Johnston	Johnston	3:04
11.	"The Captain and Me"	Johnston	Johnston	4:53

Personnel

The Doobie Brothers:

• Tom Johnston – guitars, harmonica on "Long Train Runnin'", ARP synthesizer, lead and backing vocals
• Patrick Simmons – guitars, ARP synthesizer, banjo on "The Captain and Me", lead and backing vocals
• Tiran Porter – bass, backing vocals
• John Hartman – drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Michael Hossack – drums, congas, cymbals, timbales

Additional players:

• Bill Payne – piano on "China Grove", "South City Midnight Lady" and "Ukiah", organ on "Long Train Runnin'" and "Without You", electric piano on "Dark Eyed Cajun Woman"
• Jeffrey 'Skunk' Baxter – pedal steel guitar on "South City Midnight Lady"
• Ted Templeman – percussion
• Nick DeCaro – string arrangements on "Dark Eyed Cajun Woman", "South City Midnight Lady" and "Evil Woman"
• Malcolm Cecil, Robert Margouleff – ARP synthesizer programming on "Natural Thing", "Clear as the Driven Snow", "South City Midnight Lady" and "Ukiah"