Live in Boston 1982: The Complete Concert

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Live in Boston, 1982: The Complete Concert
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ReleasedDecember 18, 2020
RecordedNovember 23, 1982
VenueBradford Hotel, Boston
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Length143:57
Label Craft
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Live in Boston 1982: The Complete Concert is a live album by American blues rock band George Thorogood and the Destroyers. It was recorded on November 23, 1982, at the Bradford Hotel in Boston (now the Royale Nightclub), [3] and released on December 4, 2020, by Craft Recordings. [4] [5] The album is an expanded version of the original Live in Boston, 1982. [6] [7]

Contents

Track listing

Disc one track listing
No.TitleLength
1."House of Blue Lights"4:41
2."Kids from Philly"2:22
3."Who Do You Love?^"6:45
4."I'm Wanted"5:19
5."Cocaine Blues^"3:55
6."One Way Ticket"5:22
7."One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"13:10
8."As the Years Go Passing By"4:40
9."Spoken Introduction: The Dance Floor^"1:47
10."It Wasn't Me"7:03
11."Bottom of the Sea^"3:25
12."Night Time^"5:57
13."New Boogie Chillun'"7:54
Disc two track listing
No.TitleLength
1."I'll Change My Style^"4:15
2."Miss Luann"5:44
3."Madison Blues^"5:55
4."The Sky Is Crying^"8:53
5."I Can't Stop Lovin'"4:11
6."Spoken Introduction: Audience Participation^"0:51
7."Same Thing^"4:23
8."Bad to the Bone^"5:06
9."Move It on Over"5:22
10."Wild Weekend"2:05
11."Nobody but Me"3:39
12."No Particular Place to Go^"4:36
13."Ride on Josephine^"8:21
14."Reelin' and Rockin'^"8:16
Total length:143:57

^ Previously unreleased [6] [8]

Personnel

Musicians

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