The Doobie Brothers ' latest album, Walk This Road , is barely four months old -- albeit a couple of years in the making. But Michael McDonald is ready to get started on the next one.

"I think we're looking at maybe, possibly doing another record, and there's a lot of things about that we'd like to try," he tells UCR. Walk This Road is, in fact, McDonald's first as a full-time member of the Doobies since One Step Closer in 1980.

It's also the first time since 1976's Takin` It to the Streets that both McDonald and founding member Tom Johnston worked on an album together. More than anything else, the former explains, "we'd like to try sitting in a room together again and recording the way we used to.

"There's some benefits to recording these days with...the technology and

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