George Thorogood and the Destroyers

George Thorogood and the Destroyers

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George Thorogood and the Destroyers

K-97 and the Edmonton Journal Present

GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS
With Guests

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
Performance 7:30 p.m.

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American blues rock legend, George Thorogood returns with a new tour, hitting Edmonton on May 22nd and a new album, 2120 South Michigan Avenue.

2120 South Michigan Avenue, home of Chicago's Chess Records, immortalized in the Rolling Stones' like-named instrumental, recorded at an epochal session at Chess in June 1964 and included on the band's album 12 X 5 - serves as the title to George Thorogood's electrifying Capitol/EMI salute to the Chess label and its immortal artists.

Thorogood has been essaying the Chess repertoire since his 1977 debut album, which included songs by Elmore James and Bo Diddley that originated on the label. He has cut 18 Chess covers over the years; three appeared on his last studio release, 2009's The Dirty Dozen. On 2120 South Michigan Avenue, he offers a full-length homage to the label that bred his style with interpretations of 10 Chess classics.

2120 South Michigan Avenue isn't just Thorogood's salute to a great record label - it also pays homage to the tough, larger-than-life men who made the music.

"It was a lifestyle as well as an art form, as far as music goes," Thorogood notes. "They were singing about what their life was like on a daily basis. Sonny Boy Williamson and Wolf and Muddy Waters - they didn't think they were the baddest cats in the world, they knew they were the baddest cats in the world. They had to be, or they wouldn't have survived. There's nothing glamorous in it - that's just the facts. They had to fight their way through on a daily basis just to keep their heads above water. That's very clear in a lot of their songs."

Some of the songs from the Chess catalog heard on 2120 South Michigan Avenue were staples of the Destroyers' live repertoire; Thorogood says, "A lot of the things I recorded I was doing 25 or 30 years ago, and I had stopped doing them."
He adds that since many Chess recordings have become linchpins of the rock and blues repertoire, both on record and in concert, some careful winnowing had to be done for the album: "We did a lot of research and said, 'Wait a minute, the Rolling Stones did that song, John Hammond did that song.'"

"When you do Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, when you play Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, there's no experimenting," Thorogood explains. "That's a religion, and you've gotta do it right."

The historic music heard on 2120 South Michigan Avenue didn't merely change George Thorogood's life, as he himself notes.

"It's not a musical phenomenon, it's a social phenomenon. The man who created rock 'n' roll was Chuck Berry, and he listened to Muddy Waters. Bo Diddley went to the same school and listened to the same people. Rock 'n' roll changed the whole world. That never would have happened if it hadn't been for Chess Records. It's the source of the whole thing."

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