How apt? - ...as we head into the fall election season. This is a new addition to my collection. It has You Talk Too Much. I love that song. This is Born to Be Bad , the ___th studio album released by George Thorogood. It was released in 1988 on the EMI label. The album peaked at #32 on the Billboard 200. Besides Ted Nugent, George is the only rocker I am aware of who plays (exclusively?) Gibson's Byrdland guitar. That make and model is a jazz style guitar. Ted's is usually in sunburst, and George seems to go with a white one most times. It is a hollow-body guitar and it got its name from a melding of the names of two Nashville session guitarists: Billy Byrd and Hank Garland, for whom the guitar was originally custom built by Gibson. Semi-Correction: George actually often also plays a Gibson ES-125. Here is a very interesting story about the famous Gibson Byrdland thin-body guitar.
Whatever guitar George uses his concerts are da best! I saw him in Graham Chapel at Washington U (1979, I think) and we were dancin' so hard on the pews, I thought they were gonna explode! Same intensity a few years later at the IU Auditorium!
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