George Thorogood brought his blue-collar brand of boogie-woogie blues rock to the MGM Northfield Center Stage Tuesday night. His feel-good drinking buddy catalog of tunes hit all the right notes with the crowd; the unpretentious brand of good old-fashioned, honkytonk-roadside-bar embodies the FUN side of popular music. The crowd ate it up. Thorogood, like most rock-and-rollers, got his start in small clubs, and after five decades he still manages to get that dimly-lit small nightclub feel into his shows.
And that's a good thing.