The Hard Stuff | ||||
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Released | May 30, 2006 | |||
Recorded | 2006 | |||
Studio | Ardent Studios Castle Oaks Studios Glenwood Place Studios | |||
Genre | Boogie rock, blues rock | |||
Length | 56:40 | |||
Label | Eagle | |||
Producer | Jim Gaines The Delaware Destroyers Tom Hambridge | |||
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The Hard Stuff is the thirteenth studio album by American blues rock band George Thorogood and the Destroyers. It was released on May 30, 2006, on the Eagle Records label. [1] [2] The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Blues Album chart. [3] [4] It was their first album recorded after the departure of long time saxophone player Hank "Hurricane" Carter, a 23-year member of the band. [5]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [6] |
Classic Rock | [7] |
The Trades | A- [8] |
The Hard Stuff received generally positive reviews from critics. AllMusic's Tim Sendra says "While the record doesn't exactly capture the loose, rock hard feel of albums he cut in his glory days, it is no patch on them and should remind people that Thorogood is a master of good time rockin' blues." [1]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "The Hard Stuff" | George Thorogood, Jim Suhler, Tom Hambridge | 3:51 |
2. | "Hello Josephine" | Dave Bartholomew, Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr. | 3:05 |
3. | "Moving" | Chester Arthur Burnett | 4:13 |
4. | "I Got My Eyes On You" | Mike Morgan | 3:32 |
5. | "I Didn't Know" | Thorogood, Hambridge | 2:56 |
6. | "Any Town U.S.A." | Thorogood, Suhler, Hambridge | 4:16 |
7. | "Little Rain" | Ewart Abner, Jimmy Reed | 4:09 |
8. | "Cool It!" | Suhler | 3:01 |
9. | "Love Doctor" | Richard Fleming, Hambridge | 3:39 |
10. | "Dynaflow Blues" | Johnny Shines | 3:45 |
11. | "Rock Party" | Holland K. Smith | 4:22 |
12. | "Drifter's Escape" | Bob Dylan | 3:15 |
13. | "Give Me Back My Wig" | Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor | 4:25 |
14. | "Takin' Care Of Business" | Rudy Toombs | 4:12 |
15. | "Huckle Up Baby" | Bernard Besman, John Lee Hooker | 3:59 |
Total length: | 56:40 |
George Lawrence Thorogood is an American musician, singer and songwriter from Wilmington, Delaware. His "high-energy boogie-blues" sound became a staple of 1980s US rock radio, with hits like his original songs "Bad to the Bone" and "I Drink Alone". He has also helped to popularize older songs by American icons, such as "Move It on Over", "Who Do You Love?", and "House Rent Blues/One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer".
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