Minute By Minute (2025 Reissue, Mobile Fidelity, Hybrid SACD)

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The Doobie Brothers Create the Template for Yacht Rock: Grammy-Winning Smash Minute by Minute Features 'What a Fool Believes,' Superb Harmonies, and Soulful Melodies Sourced from the Original Analog Master Tapes: Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD 1978 Album Plays with Incredible Openness, Transparency, and Smoothness Minute by Minute saved the Doobie Brothers even as it nearly broke the band. Created when the group felt uncertain of it's place in the music world, the album catapulted the sextet to new commercial heights and signaled a distinct change in direction that the mainstream wholeheartedly embraced. Having sold more than three million copies, the four-time Grammy-winning Minute by Minute remains a pop landmark. Perhaps the Doobie Brothers didn't invent 'yacht rock' with the warm, hook-laden 'What a Fool Believes' and other similarly minded cuts on the radio-friendly Minute by Minute - look to the Top 20 title track, relaxed 'Open Your Eyes,' and horn-accompanied 'Dependin' on You' for further evidence - but the band essentially created the template many others would follow. Sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LP style gatefold sleeve packaging, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition hybrid SACD presents the 1978 effort on what is the definitive-sounding digital version of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers' biggest-selling record. Produced by Ted Templeman, Minute by Minute features non-congested openness, snappy rhythms, wonderful tonal balance, exceptionally clear vocals, and the right equilibrium of fine Polish and bluesy grit. Those facets emerge with previously unrealized definition, transparency, smoothness, and solidity on this reissue. The levels of separation, dynamics, and imaging help bring the Doobie Brothers onto a wide, depth, multi-dimensional soundstage located feet away from your listening position. A 'Sweet Feelin',' for certain. Numbered Hybrid Stereo SACD NUMBERED SPECIAL EDITION Track List 1. Here to Love You 2. What a Fool Believes 3. Minute by Minute 4. Dependin' on You 5. Don't Stop to Watch the Wheels 6. Open Your Eyes 7. Sweet Feelin' 8. Steamer Lane Breakdown 9. You Never Change 10. How Do the Fools Survive?