For one generation, blue-eyed soul singer Michael McDonald is the man who helped catapult the Doobie Brothers to fame in the mid-'70s with hits like "It Keeps You Runnin'" and "What a Fool Believes." For the younger generation, McDonald is something of a punchline, parodied on Internet video sensation "Yacht Rock" and TV sitcom "Family Guy," as well as mercilessly mocked in 2005's "The 40-Year-Old Virgin." But the soft-spoken 56-year-old is perfectly comfortable with both legacies, in part because of his children. "I have kids, (so) their perspective on anything we've done - it's exactly what you'd be saying about your parents," McDonald says. "I think ... you can look back on any generation and poke fun at it. We were, alongside all our good attributes in the '60s and '70s, we were stupid teenagers too." Donald's latest record, "Soul Speak," is the final disc - with 2003's "Motown" and 2004's "Motown 2" - in what's been billed loosely as a trilogy of sorts. The three albums feature McDonald's distinctive tenor rendering again timeless tunes such as "Into the Mystic," "Tracks of My Tears" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." ...
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