Name: Born To Be Bad
Brand: EMI
SKU: 331791
Availability: OutOfStock

Tracks

1. Shake Your Money Maker

2. You Talk Too Much

3. Highway 49

4. Born To Be Bad

5. You Can't Catch Me

6. I'm Ready

7. Treat Her Right

8. I Really Like Girls

9. Smokestack Lightning

10. I'm Moving On

Performer Notes

Personnel: George Thorogood (guitar, vocals); Steve Chrismar (guitar); Hank "Hurricane" Carter (saxophone, vocals); Bill Blough (bass); Jeff Simon (drums).
Recorded at Ardent Studios and Alpha Sound, Memphis, Tennessee in August 1987.
Personnel: George Thorogood (vocals, guitar); Hank Carter (vocals, saxophone); Steve Chrismar (guitar); Jeff Simon (drums).
Audio Mixer: Terry Manning.
Liner Note Author: John Tobler.
Recording information: Ardent Studios, Alpha Sound, Memphis, TN (08/1987).
Photographer: Moshe Brakha.
Vintage Thorogood, which is to say a defiantly unsubtle, unabashedly party-hearty serving of Chicago blues (a convincing version of Howlin' Wolf' "Highway 49"), rockabilly (a smart revamp of Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me"), '60s R&B (Roy Head's horn-driven "Treat Her Right"), country (Hank Snow's often covered "I'm Movin' On"), and self-mythologizing (the title tune, which is rather more overtly ironic than his earlier "Bad to the Bone"). Thorogood also offers a sharp take on Elmore James's "Shake Your Money Maker," which may or may not erase memories of the Butterfield Band's version but which smokes nonetheless. And his guitar work rises to the occasion and then some on a scorching recreation of Wolf's perennial "Smokestack Lighting."

Professional Reviews

Q (10/94, p.146) - "...Bud-swillin' barroom country-blues at its most accomplished..."