{"id":559791,"date":"2026-03-25T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559791\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:23:14","slug":"george-thorogood-announces-the-baddest-show-on-earth-live-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559791\/","title":{"rendered":"George Thorogood Announces \u2018The Baddest Show on Earth\u2019 Live Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Thorogood<\/a> has announced that he’ll release The Baddest Show on Earth: Greatest Hits Live<\/a> on June 12. You can hear a version of “Who Do You Love” below, which was recorded in Atlanta in 1980.<\/p>\n

The new collection pays tribute to the road work that the Delaware blues-rocker has logged for more than 50 years with his band, the Destroyers. It highlights\u00a0a series of recordings captured between 1978 and 2024, including a swath of previously unreleased tracks.<\/p>\n

What Fans Can Expect From ‘The Baddest Show on Earth’<\/p>\n

Among the highlights from the band’s vaults, you’ll hear staples like “Bad to the Bone,” “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer,” plus additional fan favorites including “Boogie Chillun,” “Tail Dragger” and “Madison Blues.”<\/p>\n

The version of “Bourbon” is just one high point. It was captured in 1980 and finds Thorogood engaged in a memorable musical duel with his late, longtime saxophonist Hank Carter.<\/p>\n

Today, George Thorogood & The Destroyers\u2014which currently consists of Jeff Simon (drums, percussion), Bill Blough (bass guitar), Jim Suhler (rhythm guitar), and Buddy Leach (saxophone)\u2014have played more than 8,000 live shows. There are numerous milestones within that big number, including the famous blitz where they set a goal to knock out\u00a050 shows in 50 days<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Listen to George Thorogood & the Destroyers’ ‘Who Do You Love,’ Live in AtlantaHow George & the Destroyers Played 50 States in 50 Days, the Hard Way<\/p>\n

They’d shared the bill for concerts with Rolling Stones<\/a> in that same era and as Thorogood remembered, the 50-date marathon was grueling in more ways than one. “I caught a real bad head cold and after we played those shows with the Stones and Bill Graham<\/a> wanted us to play a whole bunch more.,” he told UCR in 2019.<\/p>\n

“But the 50\/50 tour was already booked. So I missed out on some big gigs. Madison Square Garden, among other places, with the Stones,” he explained. “Even one of the dates we did on the 50\/50 tour was with the Rolling Stones, in New Orleans. But I was sick as a dog, I had a temperature of about 110. [Laughs] and I was in front of 80 thousand people and I had to go on after the Neville Brothers and before the Rolling Stones. That was tough.”<\/p>\n

See George Thorogood & the Destroyers Live in 2026<\/p>\n

Thorogood and the band\u00a0are already out on the road with close to 40 tour dates on deck. He continues to be energized by the stage time and expects fans will enjoy what has been collected for The Baddest Show on Earth: Greatest Hits Live as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the lights go down, the downbeat hits and the audience erupts; all bets are off,” he said in a press release. “The Destroyers are at their best when we play for the people, and these are some of our favorite\u2014and rarest\u2014performances from the past five decades. You wanted the baddest, you got it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band will add another milestone in April when they are inducted<\/a> into Nashville’s Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in April, as part of a class that includes Michael McDonald<\/a>, Keith Urban<\/a>, late keyboardist Nicky Hopkins<\/a> (Rolling Stones, Who<\/a>) and others.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: George Thorogood Expands 2026 Tour<\/a><\/p>\n

George Thorogood & the Destroyers, ‘The Baddest Show on Earth: Greatest Hits Live’ Track Listing<\/p>\n

Vinyl:<\/p>\n

Side A<\/p>\n

Who Do You Love (Live in Atlanta, Georgia \u2013 1980)*
Move It On Over (Live in Boston, Massachusetts \u2013 1982)
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (Live in Atlanta, Georgia \u2013 1980)*<\/p>\n

Side B<\/p>\n

Ride On Josephine (Live in Roslyn, New York \u2013 1978)*
Madison Blues (Live in Boston, Massachusetts \u2013 1982)
Bad To The Bone (Live in Boston, Massachusetts \u2013 1982)
Born To Be Bad (Live in Sarasota, Florida \u2013 2024)*
*previously unreleased<\/p>\n

CD\/Digital:<\/p>\n

Who Do You Love (Live in Atlanta, Georgia \u2013 1980)*
Move It On Over (Live in Boston, Massachusetts \u2013 1982)
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (Live in Atlanta, Georgia \u2013 1980)*
Ride On Josephine (Live in Roslyn, New York \u2013 1978)*
Madison Blues (Live in Boston, Massachusetts \u2013 1982)
Bad To The Bone (Live in Boston, Massachusetts \u2013 1982)
Born To Be Bad (Live in Sarasota, Florida \u2013 2024)*
Steppin\u2019 Out (Live in Midland, Texas \u2013 2022)*
Howlin\u2019 For My Baby (Live in Hyannis, Massachusetts \u2013 2023)*
Tail Dragger (Live in Kansas City, Missouri \u2013 2020)*
Boogie Chillun (Live in Toronto, Canada \u2013 1978)*
*previously unreleased<\/p>\n

George Thorogood – The Baddest Show on Earth: Greatest Hits Live<\/p>\n

Craft RecordingsTop 100 Live Albums<\/p>\n

These are more than just concert souvenirs or stage documents from that awesome show you saw last summer.<\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: UCR Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Thorogood has announced that he’ll release The Baddest Show on Earth: Greatest Hits Live on June 12.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,18224,44,2272],"class_list":["post-559791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-albums","tag-news","tag-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}