from the LP Toulouse Street, Warner Bros Records, 1972
Long before the phrase “easy breezy” was co-opted and co-modified by the makeup giant Cover Girl, it might just as well have been the expressed existential aim of feel-good rockers the Doobie Brothers; they also lay claim to one of the best damn names in rock music history, wisely changing their moniker from “Pud” at the behest of their roommate who was always commenting about how much weed they smoked! With that in mind, it’s only appropriate that they included this reggae-fied gem on their commercial breakthrough Toulouse Street, sounding like a mashup of the Louisiana bayou & the beach at Negril. Anyone who’s lived or even traveled in the West Indies can tell you, life there is addictive, and I echo their pleas, “…Caribbean moon please take me, I hear you callin' me home, got to get back to Jamaica, I want no more to roam…”
