Fox News: George Thorogood Getting Better With Time
Calling all boogie people
Photo courtesy of Aaron Rapoport
By Jessica Weston
CITY REPORTER
Courtesy - The Daily Independent
Ask George Thorogood about playing at the Kern County Fair in Bakersfield next month and the legendary performer is hardly at a loss for words.
In a phone interview recently, Thorogood praised the area as “the original area of the hardcore country music in our country, not Nashville.” Bakersfield is the place where travelers and migrants from Oklahoma settled, he said.
People from the larger area tend to be what he calls “boogie people,” he said. “Its a hard thing to explain, people who live for the rock thing. It validates their existence in a good way.”
And Thorogood ought to know. He has performed for a lot of audiences in his career since first stepping onstage on Dec. 1, 1973. Since then, George Thorogood and the Destroyers have achieved legendary status for their down-home, yet powerhouse rock tempered with country and blues. The group is known for hits such as “Bad To The Bone,” “I Drink Alone,” “Who Do You Love,” and “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.” They have put out 16 studio albums in all; they have two Platinum albums and six Gold albums.
Still, according to Thorogood, long-term success seemed anything but a certainty.
“I didn't know, its hard to predict something like that,” he said. “Because you don't don't know if the medium itself is going to last. Anything that has anything to do with entertainment is hard to predict.
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