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Tom Johnston
United States • b. 1948-08-15
Tom Johnston is credited on 1,791 releases across 295 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1965–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,791
Pressings credited
295
Albums
7
Decades active
747
In collections
Biography
Charles Thomas Johnston (born August 15, 1948) is an American musician. He is a guitarist and vocalist, known principally as a founder, guitarist, lead vocalist and songwriter for the rock group the Doobie Brothers, as well as for his own solo career. He has played off and on with the Doobie Brothers for 50 years, in several styles. Johnston is most well known for both his lead guitar and vocal role in the Doobie Brothers, as well as for his adaptation of his own acoustic guitar style, blending a unique strum and percussive accented rhythm at the same time on one instrument. This style, interwoven with melodic hammer-ons, gave Johnston an early signature sound in popular 1970s rock music. All the rhythm structures behind "Long Train Runnin'" and "Listen to the Music" were formulated first for an acoustic guitar, and then re-applied in similar style on an electric guitar. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Doobie Brothers in 2020.
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Credited work
1,791 releases · 295 albums · active 1965–2025
- Performance · 4,867
- Other credits · 124
- Production · 2
Studios: Warner Bros. Recording Studios · Sunset Sound Recorders · The Burbank Studios · Wally Heider Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Weezer
1994
Best Of The Doobies
1976
The Captain And Me
1973
Minute By Minute
1978
Toulouse Street
1972
What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
1974
Takin' It To The Streets
1976
3 + 3
1973
Stampede
1975
Livin' On The Fault Line
1977
Best Of The Doobies Volume II
1981
Another Passenger
1976
Of The Heart, Of The Soul And Of The Cross: The Utopian Experience
1991
Farewell Tour
1983
Superstars Of The 70's
1973
The End Of The Beginning
1976
Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
1991
Cycles
1989
Music Express
1975
The Doobie Brothers
1971
Walk This Road
2025
The Very Best Of The Doobie Brothers
2007
Best Of The Doobies / Best Of The Doobies Vol. II
1983
Everything You've Heard Is True
1979
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