★★★★★
It is hard to believe that George Thorogood has been spinning a yarn and rockin' audiences for over 30 years now. It seems like only yesterday that the blistering riffs from "Bad To The Bone" were blasting out of everyone's speakers. I guess I cannot flatter myself because it really has been that long. Music like Thorogood's keeps me young inside, all music does, and that is why I feel like I am only 18 inside...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
George Thorogood is forever consistent and Maverick is more of the blues/rock driving sound the journeyman guitarist is known for. John Lee Hooker's "Crawling King Snake" is what you expect from this crew while "Memphis, Tennessee" bursts at the seams with George's trademark slide and Hank Carter's saxophone...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Capitol/EMI finally dropped George Thorogood after 1997's Rockin' My Life Away stiffed, so where else was there for him to go than CMC International, the label that doesn't care if their artists keep remaking the same record for years on end? That's exactly where Thorogood and his Destroyers landed in 1998 and they released their first record for the label, Half a Boy, Half a Man, the following spring...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
You wouldn't expect any changes from George Thorogood, whose pile-driving rocking-blues and boogie have maintained their appeal despite the emergence of numerous similar-sounding ensembles. Thorogood's rough-hewn singing and always tantalizing playing are on target through the usual mix of originals and covers (this time including Bo Diddley and Willie Dixon)...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
George Thorogood was, is and always will be a bar band rocker at heart. On his first major label record 1982's "Bad to the Bone" made for Capitol, he and his tight-as-duck-feathers band don't change a single note of their hard rocking, beer guzzling sound...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
This live release by George Thorogood & the Destroyers is a good representation of the live show of the band. However, it can be said that in places, the recording seems to fall a bit flat. One of the better sections of the disc, though, is the pairing of "I Drink Alone" with "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer." That combo makes for a hard-drinking twosome of tracks, delivered in Thorogood's trademark take on retro blues and rock & roll...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Recorded on May 4, 2004, at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham, England, George Thorogood & the Destroyers sound as spirited and enthusiastic as they did 30 years ago playing bars in their Delaware hometown. While some naysayers might call the track listing repetitive, they obviously miss the point of Thorogood's live gigs to begin with...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Fans of George Thorogood & the Destroyers would probably stage a minor rebellion if their man strayed from his well worn path of bloozy boogie. Luckily, there is no need to take up arms anytime soon as Thorogood's sound remains unchanged on Ride 'Til I Die. Good natured, guy at the end of the bar vocals, buzzing slide guitar and solid American blues rock are still the order of the day...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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