Complete List Of George Thorogood Albums And Discography

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This Complete List Of George Thorogood Albums And Songs presents the full discography of George Thorogood studio albums. This complete George Thorogood discography also includes every single live album. All these spectacular George Thorogood albums have been presented below in chronological order. We have also included all original release dates with each George Thorogood album as well as all original album covers. Every George Thorogood album listed below showcases the entire album tracklisting.

GEORGE THOROGOOD STUDIO ALBUMS

George Thorogood and the Destroyers

Released 1977

CD Track Listings:

“You Got to Lose” (Earl Hooker) – 3:15
“Madison Blues” (Elmore James) – 4:24
“One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” (John Lee Hooker) – 8:20
“Kind Hearted Woman” (Robert Johnson) – 4:21
“Can’t Stop Lovin'” (E. James) – 3:04
“Ride On Josephine” (Ellas McDaniel) – 4:17
“Homesick Boy” (George Thorogood) – 3:02
“John Hardy” (Traditional) – 3:18
“I’ll Change My Style” (William Parker, Manuel Villa) – 3:57
“Delaware Slide” (Thorogood) – 7:45

Move It on Over

Released 1978

CD Track Listings:

“Move It On Over” (Hank Williams) – 4:19
“Who Do You Love?” (Bo Diddley) – 4:17
“The Sky Is Crying” (Elmore James) – 5:09
“Cocaine Blues” (T.J. Arnall) – 2:48
“It Wasn’t Me” (Chuck Berry) – 3:54
“That Same Thing” (Willie Dixon) – 3:05
“So Much Trouble” (Brownie McGhee) – 3:15
“I’m Just Your Good Thing” (James Moore) – 3:29
“Baby Please Set a Date” (Homesick James Williamson) – 4:42
“New Hawaiian Boogie” (E. James) – 4:34

Better Than the Rest (Recorded in 1974)

Released 1979

CD Track Listings:

“In the Night Time” (Michael Henderson, Sylvester Rivers) – 3:08
“I’m Ready” (Willie Dixon) – 2:46
“Goodbye Baby” (Joe Josea, Jules Taub, Sam Ling) – 3:08
“Howlin for My Darling” (Dixon, Howlin’ Wolf) – 3:24
“My Weakness” (Vetter Smith, Wilson) – 2:26
“Nadine” (Chuck Berry) – 4:03
“My Way” (Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart) – 1:56
“You’re Gonna Miss Me” (Eddie Jones) – 2:14
“Worried About My Baby” (Wolf) – 3:29
“Huckle Up Baby” (Bernard Besman, John Lee Hooker) – 2:24

More George Thorogood and the Destroyers

Released 1980

CD Track Listings:

“I’m Wanted” (Willie Dixon) – 4:05
“Kids from Philly” (George Thorogood) – 2:30
“One Way Ticket” (John Lee Hooker) – 4:33
“Bottom of the Sea” (McKinley Morganfield) – 3:30
“Night Time” (Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer) – 3:03
“Tip on In” (James Moore) – 3:01
“Goodbye Baby” (Elmore James) – 4:18
“House of Blue Lights” (Don Raye, Freddie Slack) – 3:03
“Just Can’t Make It” (Hound Dog Taylor) – 3:03
“Restless” (Carl Perkins) – 3:14

Bad to the Bone

Released 1982

CD Track Listings:

“Back to Wentzville” (George Thorogood) – 3:30
“Blue Highway” (Nick Gravenites, David Getz) – 4:44
“Nobody but Me” (The Isley Brothers) – 3:28
“I Know It’s a Sin” (Jimmy Reed) – 3:32
“New Boogie Chillun” (John Lee Hooker) – 5:03
“Bad to the Bone” (Thorogood) – 4:52
“Miss Luann” (Thorogood) – 4:13
“As the Years Go Passing By” (Deadric Malone) – 5:03
“No Particular Place to Go” (Chuck Berry) – 4:00
“Wanted Man” (Bob Dylan) – 3:12

Maverick

Released 1985

CD Track Listings:

“Gear Jammer” (George Thorogood) – 4:39
“I Drink Alone” (Thorogood) – 4:35
“Willie and the Hand Jive” (Johnny Otis) – 4:09
“What a Price” (Fats Domino, Murphy Maddux^, Jack Jessup) – 2:48
“Long Gone” (Thorogood) – 4:30
“Dixie Fried” (Carl Perkins, Howard Griffin) – 3:46
“Crawlin’ King Snake” (John Lee Hooker) – 4:02
“Memphis/Little Marie” (Chuck Berry) – 5:54
“Woman with the Blues” (Thorogood) – 3:34
“Go, Go, Go” (Berry) – 3:32
“The Ballad of Maverick” (David Buttolph, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:05

Born to Be Bad

Released 1988

CD Track Listings:

“Shake Your Money Maker” (Elmore James) – 3:29
“You Talk Too Much” (George Thorogood) – 4:35
“Highway 49” (Big Joe Williams) – 5:46
“Born to Be Bad” (Thorogood) – 3:34
“You Can’t Catch Me” (Chuck Berry) – 3:45
“I’m Ready” (Sylvester Bradford, Fats Domino, Al Lewis) – 3:20
“Treat Her Right” (Roy Head, Gene Kurtz) – 3:32
“I Really Like Girls” (Thorogood) – 3:49
“Smokestack Lightning” (Howlin’ Wolf) – 3:15
“I’m Movin’ On” (Hank Snow) – 3:58

Boogie People

Released 1991

CD Track Listings:

“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) – 3:26
“Boogie People” (Cyril B. Bunter, Thorogood) – 3:33
“I Can’t Be Satisfied” (McKinley Morganfield) – 3:38
“No Place to Go” (Chester Arthur Burnett) – 4:42
“Six Days on the Road” (Earl Green, Carl Montgomery) – 4:27
“Born in Chicago” (Nick Gravenites) – 3:24
“Oklahoma Sweetheart” (Thorogood) – 4:30
“Hello Little Girl (George Thorogood)” (Chuck Berry) – 3:46

Haircut

Released 1993

CD Track Listings:

“Get a Haircut” (David Avery, Bill Birch) – 4:12
“Howlin’ for My Baby” (Willie Dixon, Howlin’ Wolf) – 5:14
“Killer’s Bluze” (Dex Rogers) – 6:10
“Down in the Bottom” (Dixon) – 4:03
“I’m Ready” (Dixon) – 3:36
“Cops and Robbers” (Bo Diddley) – 4:50
“Gone Dead Train” (Jack Nitzsche, Russ Titelman) – 4:07
“Want Ad Blues” (John Lee Hooker) – 5:06
“My Friend Robert” (Patrick Sky) – 2:30
“Baby Don’t Go” (George Thorogood) – 3:24

Rockin’ My Life Away

Released 1997

CD Track Listings:

“Get Back into Rockin'” (Jerry Lynn Williams) – 4:16
“Trouble Every Day” (Frank Zappa) – 4:16
“Night Rider” (Thorogood) – 3:43
“The Usual” (John Hiatt) – 3:51
“Living With the Shades Pulled Down” (Merle Haggard) – 3:26
“Manhattan Slide” (Elmore James) – 3:31
“Rocking My Life Away” (Mack Vickery) – 3:33
“Jail Bait” (Andre Williams) – 3:41
“My Dog Can’t Bark” (Otis “Big Smokey” Smothers) – 4:00
“Blues Hangover” (Slim Harpo, West) – 4:18
“Stoop Down Baby” (Chick Willis) – 3:18
“Rock & Roll Man” (Thorogood) – 2:50

Half a Boy/Half a Man

Released 1999

CD Track Listings:

“I Don’t Trust Nobody” (Eddie Shaw) – 5:02
“Double Shot” (Don Smith, Cyril Vetter) – 3:12
“99 Days in Jail” (Willie Dixon, L. P. Weaver) – 3:53
“Half a Boy, Half a Man” (Nick Lowe) – 3:27
“As Long as I Have You” (Dixon) – 4:04
“B.I.G.T.I.M.E.” (Keith Sykes) – 3:07
“Be Bop Grandma” (Solomon Burke, Delores Burke) – 3:58
“Nothing New” (Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino, Jack Jessup, Murphy Maddux) – 3:24
“Just Passin’ Thru” (George Thorogood) – 4:43
“Hellbound Train (Downbound Train)” (Chuck Berry) – 4:56
“Not Tonight, I Have a Heartache” (Thorogood) – 3:22

Ride ‘Til I Die

Released 2003

CD Track Listings:

“Greedy Man” (Eddie Shaw) – 3:21
“American Made” (Charlie Midnight, Steve Hunter) – 4:06
“Sweet Little Lady” (Thorogood, Suhler) – 3:50
“Don’t Let the Bossman Get You Down” (Elvin Bishop) – 2:50
“Devil in Disguise” (J. J. Cale) – 3:10
“She’s Gone” (Theodore Roosevelt “Hound Dog” Taylor) – 3:44
“The Fixer” (Richard Fleming, Tom Hambridge) – 3:19
“You Don’t Love Me, You Don’t Care” (Ellas McDaniel) – 3:50
“My Way” (Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart) – 2:53
“That’s It, I Quit” (Nick Lowe) – 2:37
“I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water” (Joe Babcock) – 4:20
“Move It” (Chuck Berry) – 4:47
“Ride ‘Til I Die” (John Lee Hooker, Jules Taub) – 4:07

The Hard Stuff

Released 2006

CD Track Listings:

“The Hard Stuff” (George Thorogood, Jim Suhler, Tom Hambridge) – 3:51
“Hello Josephine” (Dave Bartholomew, Antoine “Fats” Domino Jr.) – 3:05
“Moving” (Chester Arthur Burnett) – 4:13
“I Got My Eyes On You” (Mike Morgan) – 3:32
“I Didn’t Know” (Thorogood, Hambridge) – 2:56
“Any Town U.S.A.” (Thorogood, Suhler, Hambridge) – 4:16
“Little Rain” (Ewart Abner, Jimmy Reed) – 4:09
“Cool It!” (Suhler) – 3:01
“Love Doctor” (Richard Fleming, Hambridge) – 3:39
“Dynaflow Blues” (Johnny Shines) – 3:45
“Rock Party” (Holland K. Smith) – 4:22
“Drifter’s Escape” (Bob Dylan) – 3:15
“Give Me Back My Wig” (Theodore Roosevelt “Hound Dog” Taylor) – 4:25
“Takin’ Care Of Business” (Rudy Toombs) – 4:12
“Huckle Up Baby” (Bernard Besman, John Lee Hooker) – 3:59

2120 South Michigan Ave

Released 2011

CD Track Listings:

Going Back
“Hi-Heel Sneakers” (featuring Buddy Guy)
“Seventh Son”
Spoonful
“Let It Rock”
“Two Trains Running (Still a Fool)”
“Bo Diddley”
“Mama Talk to Your Daughter”
“Help Me”
My Babe” – featuring Charlie Musselwhite
“Willie Dixon’s Gone”
Chicago Bound
“2120 South Michigan Ave.” – featuring Charlie Musselwhite

GEORGE THOROGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS LIVE ALBUMS

Live

Released 1995

Live: Let’s Work Together

Released 1996

Live in ’99

Released November 23, 1999

30th Anniversary Tour: Live

Released October 19, 2004

Live in Boston 1982

Released July 27, 2010

Live at Montreux 2013

Released November 18, 2013

Live in Boston 1982: The Complete Concert

Released December 18, 2020

CD Track Listings:

GEORGE THOROGOOD COMPILATION ALBUMS

The Dirty Dozen

Released 2009

CD Track Listings:

“Tail Dragger” (Willie Dixon) – 3:41
“Drop Down Mama” (John Adam Estes) – 4:20
“Run Myself Out of Town” (Wendell Holmes) – 3:03
“Born Lover” (McKinley Morganfield) – 4:12
“Twenty Dollar Gig” (Mickey Bones) – 3:16
“Let Me Pass” (Ellas McDaniel) – 3:40
“Howlin’ for My Baby” (Dixon, Howlin’ Wolf) – 5:13
“Highway 49” (Big Joe Williams) – 5:46
“Six Days on The Road” (Earl Green, Carl Montgomery) – 4:27
“Treat Her Right (Roy Head, Gene Kurtz) – 3:32
“Hello Little Girl” (Chuck Berry) – 3:46
“Blue Highway” (Nick Gravenites, David Getz) – 4:44

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