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George Thorogood and the Destroyers - The Dirty Dozen [NEW LINX!]

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George Thorogood and the Destroyers - The Dirty Dozen [NEW LINX!]

George Thorogood and the Destroyers - The Dirty Dozen
Year/Label: 2009 Capitol Records | CD#: 509996 84082 20 | File-host: MU.com
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Hard-Blues-Rock | CD-length 49:11 | 363 MB (FLAC) | 113 MB (Mp3)

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A unique collection of 6 new blues-rock tracks in classic Thorogood style, combined with 6 "fan favorites" that have been out-of-print and hard to find on CD.



George Thorogood is now over thirty years and sixteen studio albums into his career. As he approaches sixty he is who he is. He is a first rate guitarist with an exceptional slide technique who produces loud, crunching, and frenetic rock/blues fusion music. If you like one of his albums you will probably enjoy them all.

He and his backing group, The Destroyers, are the ultimate party and bar band. They are road warriors and in the early eighties they played concerts in all fifty states in fifty days.

2009 finds him releasing The Dirty Dozen. He breaks no knew ground and in some ways over the years this may have kept him from being a huge break-out star but he does cover the old very well.

My only complaint is that the album contains only six new studio tracks. The second half of the release is made up of previously released material from four of his earlier albums. The promotional propaganda calls them fan favorites but if you have such albums as Haircut, Boogie People, Born To Be Bad, and Bad To The Bone then you own this material. It may be good but it’s been out there awhile.

The new material is covers of old blues songs which fit his comfort zone well. Willie Dixon’s “Tail Dragger” is the first track and its sound is instantly recognizable. His growling vocals are the perfect match for this and other blues songs. Muddy Water’s “Born Lover” is given a party treatment as his guitar playing is straight rock. He copies Bo Diddley’s chugging rhythms on “Let Me Pass.” The best of the older material is the Howlin’ Wolf blues standard “Howlin’ For My Baby” which features power guitar playing combined with some superior sax sounds. His take on “Six Days On The Road” takes this old country standard is a unique direction.

The Dirty Dozen is the type of straight ahead smash mouth rock ‘n’ roll that has made him famous and should please both his old and new fans. So sit back, grab a beer and relax because George Thorogood is still “Bad To The Bone.” [Blogcritics-org]


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George Thorogood has never been a subtle performer. When he straps on his guitar, you know you’re going to get a barrage of loud, nasty, over-the-top pyrotechnics, heavy on the slide guitar and growling, and scratchy vocals that are as much shouted as sung. An unlikely rock star, Thorogood’s forte has been the ability to take the great songs of the blues and country songbook and turn them into party music for several generations of kids who may not have discovered Hank Williams or Howlin’ Wolf until they read the liner notes for a Thorogood album. He’s written a handful of great tunes himself, most notably the bar band standard “Bad to the Bone” (his take on Muddy Waters’ “Hoochie Coochie Man”), but it’s his treatment of the classics that made him a star.

The Dirty Dozen is Thorogood’s return to EMI/Capitol, but he doesn’t pull any new rabbits out of his hat to celebrate and half of the 12 tracks here are reissues of older tunes—“fan favorites” it calls them on the label. It’s not what you’d call a winning strategy, but Thorogood’s never pursued rock stardom as such. What success he’s had was won the old-fashioned way, by touring till the band collapsed and then getting up and touring some more. What we have here is another Thorogood album—nothing less, nothing more—a satisfying slab of meat and potatoes rock that satisfies without making too much of a lasting impression.

Things start out promisingly enough with “Tail Dragger”, a Willie Dixon classic popularized by Howlin’ Wolf. There’s what sounds like an Echoplex or digital reverb effect on Thorogood’s guitar as it pans from left to right across the sonic space between the speakers, and a bit of reverb on Thorogood’s voice, but that’s about as far as he strays from his trademark sound. The tune soon drops back into more familiar territory as Thorogood and the Destroyers—his original rhythm section of bass guitarist Billy Blough and drummer Jeff Simon with 10-year vet Jim Suhler on rhythm guitar and relative newcomer Buddy Leach on sax—pummel the song into submission. Sleepy John Estes’ “Drop Down Mama” gets a modified Bo Diddley beat for Thorogood to solo over while Suhler supplies a bed of thick, distorted rhythm chords. The Holmes Brothers’ “Run Myself Out of Town” is an energetic, countrified shuffle and one of the newest tunes in the set. Thorogood’s sly vocal sets up a rippling solo that has one foot in Chicago and one in Nashville while Leach provides some nasty sax accents. Mickey Bones’ “Twenty Dollar Gig” gives Leach a chance to show off his R&B chops on sax as the band lays down a relentless groove. The tune is a variation on the campfire song “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall”, but the Destroyers put the pedal to the metal and send the song into overdrive. Likewise with Bo Diddley’s “Let Me Pass”, which is played at a heart attack-inducing tempo. It closes the new side of the album on a high note.

The fan favorites of “Side Two” are not unexpectedly all tunes from Thorogood’s Capitol and EMI America albums: Wolf’s “Howlin’ for My Baby” from Haircut, “Highway 49” and “Treat Her Right” from Born to Be Bad, “Six Days on the Road” and “Hello Little Girl” from Boogie People, and “Blue Highway” from Bad to the Bone, and why they didn’t put that album’s title track—his biggest hit—on the set is a mystery.

Thorogood is in fine voice throughout; he sounds as vital on the new recordings on side one as on the 20-year-old cuts on side two, and the Destroyers are still one of the most inexorably driving rhythm sections on the planet. There’s nothing new here, but you don’t pick up a Thorogood album to do anything but get down and rock, and The Dirty Dozen more than fills the bill in that regard. [crawdaddy.wolfgangsvault-com]


Track List:

01. Tail Dragger (3:41)
02. Drop Down Mama (4:20)
03. Run Myself Out Of Town (3:03)
04. Born Lover (4:12)
05. Twenty Dollar Gig (3:16)
06. Let Me Pass (3:40)
07. Howlin' For My Baby (5:13)
08. Highway 49 (5:47)
09. Six Days On The Road (4:23)
10. Treat Her Right (2:59)
11. Hello Little Girl (3:47)
12. Blue Highway (4:43)




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