★★★★★
The blues must be one of the few areas of popular music to respect age above youth; with his first album now over 35 years old, George Thorogood is at an age that might be considered mature by the standards of the genre. Yet, as this recording from this year's Montreux Jazz Festival shows, his energy is hardly on the wane.Thorogood and his formidable band attack12 songs: a mix of R&B; standards (Who Do You Love...
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-01-02
★★★★★
If you've spent any considerable stretch of time in middle America, chances are good you think you already know everything you would ever need to about George Thorogood and the Destroyers. Songs like "Bad to the Bone", "I Drink Alone", and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" are classic rock radio staples here in the heartland, and when I was growing up, I couldn't stand them: to my ears, they were without exception cocky, plodding, simplistic, all but unlistenable...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-10-02
★★★★★
There are so few rockers that hail from Delaware, and that makes both Tom Verlaine (Television) and George Thorogood special.I haven't heard anything from Verlaine in years but the fine folks at Rounder have re-released George's first two albums,so let's check out these blues. Delaware's not the blues hot-spot that Texas or Mississippi is, but Thorogood put the place on the map with this self-titled disc...
- www.ink19.com
2013-08-14
★★★★★
This may be George Thorogood's 15th album of blues-rock, but his passion for the genre clearly remains undiminished. 2120 South Michigan Avenue is a tribute to Chess imprint and, as most of the songs are covers, in a way it's completely superfluous. If you're a fan, you already know what Thorogood's versions of High Heel Sneakers or Spoonful will sound like. That doesn't, of course, make them any less good...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2011-09-12
★★★★★
On this 15th studio album, the bad-to-the-bone blues-rocker and his band pay tribute to Chess Records, the mythic Chicago label whose studio was located at the titular address. Thorogood says the Chess repertoire was his music school, and it's with obvious delight that he blasts through classics from key Chess artists such as Willie Dixon (Seventh Son), Howlin' Wolf (Spoonful), Chuck Berry (Let It Rock), Muddy Waters (Two Trains Running) and Bo Diddley (the self-titled Bo Diddley)...
- hour.ca
2011-07-25
★★★★★
George Thorogood and the Destroyers 2120 South Michigan Avenue (Capitol, 2011) Like many young men, George Thorogood had an almost religious experience the first time he heard a single on the Chess label. Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and other blues men and early rock 'n' rollers inspired Thorogood to pick up a guitar himself...
- www.crawdaddy.com
2011-07-11
★★★★★
You always know what you're going to get with a George Thorogood record, and that's a good thing. For over thirty years, he and his band, the Destroyers, have been plying their brand of blues-rock to anyone and everyone that will listen, and they do indeed deliver the hard stuff on their latest release. Early musical influences are represented with a generousseasoning of blues covers and I, for one, thank Thorogood for digging them out of obscurity for a new generation of listeners...
- www.the-trades.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Along with Texas' Fabulous Thunderbirds, New England's J. Geils Band and California's Mighty Flyers, Delaware's George Thorogood and the Destroyers were products of the second blues revival. Having not listened to them in about 25 years, hearing this CD reminds one of when you play 33 1/3 rpm LP record albums at 45 rpm on a turntable...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
No one stretches three chords - heck, make that one chord - more than our man George. For proof look no further than the lead-off, sliding guitar title track (with a bass line that sounds remarkably like that of the classic '70s hit I Dig You, by Brit punk act Cult Hero) by the self-described "world's greatest bar band...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
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