Name: Haircut [Remaster]
Brand: Beat Goes On (BGO)
SKU: 1390034
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Haircut [Remaster]

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Format

CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Release Date

31 October 2002

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EAN

5017261205735

Writer

Country

United Kingdom

Studio/Live

Studio

Label

Beat Goes On (BGO)

Dimensions

12.6 x 14.3 x 1 centimeters (0.05 kg)

Performer Notes

George Thorogood & The Destroyers: George Thorogood (vocals, guitar); Hank Carter (saxophone, keyboards, background vocals); Bill Blough (bass); Jeff Simon (drums).
Producers: Terry Manning, The Delaware Destroyers.
The CD booklet for HAIRCUT features an original eight page cartoon by Peter Bagge.
This is one of the most consistently bluesy of Thorogood's '90s albums, with fewer of the overt goofs and '60s garage-band and punk influences that drove the purists crazy. Instead, it's a big-sounding, mostly serious set, in which Thorogood covers the usual suspects--John Lee Hooker ("Want Ad Blues"), Willie Dixon ("Down in the Bottom," which he probably learned from a Stones bootleg), and Bo Diddley ("Cops and Robbers," ditto). As usual, there are also a couple of changes of pace, in this case a solo acoustic version of "My Friend Robert" (an obscure song by '60s folkie Patrick Sky) and Thorogood's own "Baby Don't Go," an infectious piece of New Wave Tex-Mex, complete with the sort of cheesy organ riffs that hadn't been heard since the late '70s heyday of Joe "King" Carrasco. The hit from the album, of course, was the deliberately snot-nosed "Get a Haircut," but the album's actual centerpiece is the astounding "Killer's Bluze," which is in fact a six-minute death threat set to the riff from "I'm a Man." Eminem, eat your heart out.