Producers: Terry Manning, The Delaware Destroyers.

Engineers: John Nagy, Terry Manning.

Includes liner notes by Steve Morse.

Personnel: George Thorogood (vocals, guitar); Hank Carter (vocals, saxophone); Steve Chrismar (guitar); Ian Stuart (piano); Jeff Simon (drums); Uncle Meat Pennington (maracas).

Liner Note Author: Steve Morse.

Recording information: Alpha Sound, Memphis, TN; Ardent Studios, Memphis, TN; Dimension Sound, Jamaican Plain, Boston, MA; Studio 56, Los Angeles, CA.

The aptly-titled The Baddest of George Thorogood and the Destroyers offers a dozen tracks that cleanse the church of rock'n'roll of all but its most basic elements: guitar, bass, drums, and a pile of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Rolling Stone licks. Delaware's George Thorogood has never quite captured his wildman live presence in the studio, but having all his best material gathered on one disc -- including "Bad to the Bone," "Move It on Over," and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" -- makes for a great party. Steve Morse's liner notes are brief but, like the songs, get right to the point ... cut to the bone, you might say. ~ Roch Parisien

Sometimes, as the wisdom of Huey Lewis so sagely tells us, bad is bad. But then again, Huey never contemplated THE BADDEST OF GEORGE THOROGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS, of which it is ineluctable fact that the baddest here is actually the best--which is to say that this is one greatest hits package that really delivers. Everything a devoted Thorogood fan could want, save "I Drink Alone" and "Haircut" (which unfortunately was recorded a year too late to make the cut), is here on one convenient CD. And there are two swell new bonus tracks--a remake of Thorogood's earlier version of the Robert Johnson classic "Steady Rollin' Man," plus an extremely loud assault on Chuck Berry's "Louie to Frisco" on which the great Rolling Stones sideman Ian Stewart contributes definitive boogie woogie piano stylings.