''Boogie People'' is the eighth studio album released by
George Thorogood and the Destroyers
George Lawrence Thorogood (born February 24, 1950) is an American musician, singer and songwriter from Wilmington, Delaware.
His "high-energy boogie-blues" sound became a staple of 1980s rock radio, with hits like his original songs "Bad to the ...
. It was released in
1991
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on the
EMI
EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records Ltd. or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At the time of its break-up in 201 ...
label.
[ Allmusic.com - Boogie People - Overview/ref> The album peaked at #77 on the ''Billboard'' 200.][ Allmusic.com - Boogie People - Charts & Awards/ref>
]
Track listing
# " If You Don't Start Drinkin' (I'm Gonna Leave)" (George Thorogood) – 4:11
# "Long Distance Lover" (Thorogood) – 3:57
# "Mad Man Blues" (John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often ...
) – 3:26
# "Boogie People" (Cyril B. Bunter, Thorogood) – 3:33
# "I Can't Be Satisfied" (McKinley Morganfield
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago ...
) – 3:38
# "No Place to Go" (Chester Arthur Burnett
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910January 10, 1976), better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer and guitarist. He is regarded as one of the most influential blues musicians of all time. Over a four-decade car ...
) – 4:42
# "Six Days on the Road
"Six Days on the Road" is an American song written by Earl Green and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio songwriter Carl Montgomery, made famous by country music singer Dave Dudley. The song was initially recorded by Paul Davis (not the same as the better ...
" (Earl Green, Carl Montgomery) – 4:27
# "Born in Chicago" (Nick Gravenites
Nicholas George Gravenites (; born October 2, 1938) is an American blues, rock and folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his work with Electric Flag (as their lead singer), Janis Joplin, Mike Bloomfield and several influential b ...
) – 3:24
# "Oklahoma Sweetheart" (Thorogood) – 4:30
# " Hello Little Girl (George Thorogood)" (Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who pioneered rock and roll. Nicknamed the " Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and developed rhythm and blues into th ...
) – 3:46
Personnel
The following personnel are credited on the album:[
]
Musicians
* George Thorogood
George Lawrence Thorogood (born February 24, 1950) is an American musician, singer and songwriter from Wilmington, Delaware.
His "high-energy boogie-blues" sound became a staple of 1980s rock radio, with hits like his original songs "Bad to the ...
– guitar, vocals
* Billy Blough – bass guitar
* Hank Carter – saxophone, vocals
* Jeff Simon – drums
* Steve Chrismar – guitar
Technical
* Delaware Destroyers – producer
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* Terry Manning
Terry Manning is an American photographer, composer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, audio engineer, and visual artist. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he has worked with Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Bryan Adams, ...
– producer, engineer
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, mixing
* Bob Ludwig
Robert C. Ludwig (born c. 1945) is an American mastering engineer. He has mastered recordings on all the major recording formats for all the major record labels, and on projects by more than 1,300 artists including Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, Qu ...
– mastering
* Diane Cuddy – design
* Henry Marquez – art direction
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* Alan Messer – photography (front cover)
* Jeffrey Scales – photography (back cover)
* John Tobler
John Hugen Tobler (born 9 May 1943) is a British rock music journalist, writer, occasional broadcaster, and record company executive.
With Pete Frame, he was one of the founders of ZigZag magazine in April 1969. The magazine focused on the " un ...
– liner notes
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Origin
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Charts
References
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George Thorogood and the Destroyers albums
1991 albums
Albums produced by Terry Manning
EMI Records albums