George Thorogood-George Thorogood And The Destroyers

A great slide guitar player from Wilmington Delaware he plays in the style of Elmore James. This, his first album from 1977 has him and his band covering some Blues classics. There are two by Thorogood, “Homesick Boy” and “Delaware Slide” where he sings about driving down that highway called 95 and playing some long guitar solos. Two by Elmore James “Can’t Stop Lovin'”, and the great “Madison Blues”. That song and “Ride On Josephine” were heard on the radio often ,but the big hit on this record is a medley of two John Lee Hooker songs “House Rent Boogie” and “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”. A song everyone seems to like and a great party song. On the back cover is a review by someone who saw him in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1975 where he played to a nearly empty house. In the fall of ’75 some of my friends were going to the University of Delaware and I would go there on weekends to hang out sometimes. I was going to the Community College in Wilmington. George Thorogood and his band would often play at the Deer Park Tavern then and one night we decided to go see them. The place was packed with U. of D. students as it usually was and they were playing in one of the rooms. After playing they had a few drinks at the bar. This is a used record I bought sometime in the 80’s on Rounder Records.

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