Product Description
On their 15th studio album, George Thorogood and The Destroyers pay tribute to their Chess Records heroes, including many of Thorogood's legendary mentors who helped to launch his career in rock & roll. Titled 2120 South Michigan Avenue, the 13-track album will be released on CD, vinyl LP (with 1 bonus track), and digital download.

2120 features Thorogood's raw, rocking turn on classics by a who's-who of the blues, including Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter and other Chess greats, as well as new original songs written by Thorogood, the album s producer, Tom Hambridge, and Richard Fleming.

Named for the address of Chess Records Chicago headquarters, 2120 South Michigan Avenue is produced by musician, songwriter and producer Tom Hambridge, a four-time GRAMMY Award nominee and 2010 GRAMMY winner for Best Contemporary Blues Album and ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Award winner. The album's featured guests include 2010 GRAMMY Award winners Buddy Guy and Charlie Musselwhite.

This is the album George Thorogood was born to make.

1. Going Back
2. Hi-Heel Sneakers - Featuring Buddy Guy
3. Seventh Son
4. Spoonful
5. Let It Rock
6. Two Trains Running (Still A Fool)
7. Bo Diddley
8. Mama Talk To Your Daughter
9. Help Me
10. My Babe - Featuring Charlie Musselwhite
11. Willie Dixon's Gone
12. Chicago Bound
13. 2120 South Michigan Ave. - Featuring Charlie Musselwhite

CD:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0051YKU6Y/?tag=imwan-20

LP:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0053XKULI/?tag=imwan-20

Bump: added pre-order details to the first post.

This sounds pretty damn good actually. I've lost track over the years-what is the Destroyers lineup these days?

George Thorogood and The Destroyers' new album, 120 South Michigan Avenue, will be released by Capitol/EMI on July 12 on CD, vinyl LP, and digital download.
On this, their 17th studio album, George Thorogood and The Destroyers pay tribute to their Chess Records heroes, including many of Thorogood's legendary mentors who helped to launch his career in rock & roll.

The album features Thorogood's raw, rocking turn on classics by a who's-who of the blues, including Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter and other Chess greats, as well as new original songs written by Thorogood, the album's producer, Tom Hambridge, and Richard Fleming.

Thorogood is proud to honor Chess Records' architects of modern blues and rock & roll, saying "Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley are religion to me. I know their ears and eyes are on me, so I have to nail it."

2120 South Michigan Avenue producer Tom Hambridge says of Thorogood, "What's makes this album so perfect for George is that he has been doing it authentically all along. He can deliver Howlin' Wolf better than anybody, because he's lived it. He's not going to sing something he doesn't believe in."
[Official Tracklisting & Credits]

1. Going Back [written by Tom Hambridge and George Thorogood]
2. High Heel Sneakers (featuring Buddy Guy)
3. Seventh Son
4. Spoonful
5. Let It Rock
6. Two Trains Running
7. Bo Diddley
8. Mama Talk To Your Daughter
9. Help Me
10. My Babe (featuring Charlie Musselwhite)
11. Willie Dixon's Gone [written by Tom Hambridge, George Thorogood, and Richard Fleming]
12. Chicago Bound
13. 2120 South Michigan Avenue (featuring Charlie Musselwhite)

Just picked this up - it is a GREAT sounding cd.

Picked up a promo last week. Very impressed on first listen. The title track (an instrumental) is actually an old Rolling Stones song.

I've never been a big fan of George Thorogood, but I'll get this for the Buddy Guy collaboration. I have to say though, I do love the cover art for this CD of covers! What old record collector wouldn't?

Never really knew what the song Madison Blues was about -- didn't listen all that closely to the lyrics. When I was younger, growing up in Madison, Wisconsin, I thought Thorogood was some local musician singing about Madison. Then I found out he wasn't, later found out it was a cover of an Elmore James song, and still later found out it really was about a brand name "shoe". I wonder if one can still get a pair of these "Madison shoes". Anyway, I digress.