George Thorogood and The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone

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A blues-rock guitarist who draws his inspiration from Elmore James, Hound Dog Taylor, and Chuck Berry, George Thorogood never earned much respect from blues purists, but he became a popular favorite in the early '80s through repeated exposure on FM radio and the arena rock circuit. Thorogood's music was always loud, simple, and direct -- his riffs and licks were taken straight out of '50s Chicago blues and rock & roll -- but his formulaic approach helped him gain a rather large audience in the '80s, when his albums regularly went gold.

"Bad to the Bone" is a song by George Thorogood and the Destroyers released in 1982 on the album of the same name. The song's roots can be traced back to rock and roll musician Bo Diddley's song "I'm a Man", which uses a similar guitar riff and vocal rhythm, and has a similar overall structure, as well as Muddy Waters's "Mannish Boy" or "Hoochie Coochie Man", John Lee Hooker's "I'm Bad Like Jesse James", and Johnny "Guitar" Watson's "Gangster of Love".

Saint Louis Blues - George Thorogood and The Destroyers

St. Louis Blues is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style. It remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians' repertoire. It was also one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song. It has been performed by numerous musicians of all styles from Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith to Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Guy Lombardo, and the Boston Pops Orchestra. Published in September 1914 by Handy's own company, it later gained such popularity that it inspired the dance step the "Foxtrot".
The version with Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong on cornet was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1993. The 1929 version by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra (with Henry "Red" Allen) was inducted there in 2008.

Who Do You Love?

"Who Do You Love?" is a song written and recorded in 1956 by Bo Diddley.

I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snakefor a necktie
A brand new house on the road side, and it's a-made out ofrattlesnake hide
Got a band new chimney put on top, and it's a-made out of humanskull
Come on take a little walk with me baby, and tell me who do youlove?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

Around the town I use a rattlesnake whip, take it easy baby don'tyou give me no lip
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

I've got a tombstone hand and a graveyard mind, I'm justtwenty-two and I don't mind dying
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

Now Arlene took a-me by my hand, she said "Lonesome George youdon't understand,
who do you love?"
The night were dark and the sky were blue, down the alleyway ahouse wagon flew
Hit a bump and somebody screamed, you should've heard what I'dseen
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

Yeah, I've got a tombstone hand in a graveyard mine, justtwenty-two baby I don't mind dying
Snake skin shoes baby put them on your feet, got the goodtimemusic and the Bo Diddley beat
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snakefor a necktie
A brand new house on the road side, and it's made out ofrattlesnake hide
Got a band new chimney put on top, and it's made out of humanskull
Come on take a little walk with me child, tell me who do youlove?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?