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Genre : Rock
Latest Release : Greatest Hits:30 Years Of Rock
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George Thorogood
You may not like George Thorogood, but you have to kind of admire his persistence, as well as his love for the music he plays. Though not a particularly talented singer or guitar player, Thorogood has still spent the better part of the last 25 years turning young people on to the joys of the blues; many are the present-day blues fans, for example, who didn't pick up a John Lee Hooker LP until after hearing Thorogood's blazing versions of "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" or "Boogie Chillun."
A blues-rock guitarist who draws his inspiration from Elmore James, Hound Dog Taylor, and Chuck Berry, George Thorogood never earned much respect from blues purists, but he became a popular favorite in the early '80s through repeated exposure on FM radio and the arena rock circuit. Thorogood's music was always loud, simple, and direct — his riffs and licks were taken straight out of '50s Chicago blues and rock & roll — but his formulaic approach helped him gain a rather large audience in the '80s, when his albums regularly went gold.
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Artist Biography - George Thorogood
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 Thorogood & the Destroyers (original members Billy Blough on bass and Jeff Simon on drums; sax player Hank Carter joined in 1980 and guitarist Jim Suhler came on board in 2000) began playing blues together in Delaware beer joints in the early '70s. They released their self-titled debut on the Rounder label in 1978; filled with classic covers and derivative originals, it pretty much set the tone for the rest of the band's career. The band hit a high-water mark with 1982's Bad To The Bone, which featured some of Thorogood's best original material, 1985's Maverick also had its moments of transcendence. Unfortunately, everything from then on has been as uninspired and self-parodic as the title of 1988's Born To Be Bad.
Still, Thorogood has never shown even the slightest evidence of pretension, and he seems quite content to spend the rest of his life rocking up the blues for audiences whose primary goal is to have a beer-sodden good time; his latest efforts, Rockin' My Life Away and <(>Anthology (a collection of greatest hits and rare tracks taken from the band's 25-year recording career), does nothing to dispel this image. Maybe we should just call Thorogood & the Destroyers the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion of the '80s and be done with it.
By the beginning of the '90s, Thorogood's audience began to decrease. None of the albums he released went gold, even though the title track from 1993's Haircut was a number two album rock hit. Despite his declining record sales, Thorogood continued to tour blues and rock clubs and he usually drew large crowds; subsequent efforts include 1997's Rockin' My Life Away, 1999's Half a Boy/Half a Man, and Live in '99.
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