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George Thorogood hits the ground running
George Thorogood and the Destroyers will be all over the US and Canada this year, both alone and with legendary blues-rocker Buddy Guy.
The band will start with a month-long US leg that kicks off Feb. 23, immediately following a NASCAR race in Fontana, CA, and wraps March 22 in St. Augustine, FL. Thorogood and company will then skip over to mid-May, when they'll launch a 17-date tour of Canada, followed by more than a dozen shows with Guy across the US. The current itinerary is listed below; more dates with Guy are still to come, according to a press release.
Indeed, 2008 is shaping up to be another busy year for Thorogood and the Destroyers, who are also planning a new album.
"We're hitting the ground running and not going to stop until we're run over or left for dead," the singer/songwriter/guitarist said in a press release. "Remember, rock and roll doesn't sleep, it just passes out."
Last year, Thorogood and his band played more than 70 shows in the US and toured Europe to support their latest release, "The Hard Stuff," which surfaced in May 2006. The set features a number of originals, as well as covers of several obscure blues tunes, including Jimmy Reed's "Little Rain," Hound Dog Taylor's "Give Me Back My Wig," Fats Domino's "Hello Josephine" and Johnny Shines' "Dynaflow Blues."
The group decided to make a blues-heavy album after its 2004 retrospective, "George Thorogood: 30 Years of Rock," spent 50 weeks atop Billboard's Blues Albums chart and 90 weeks on the chart overall.
