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Rounder Records, in conjunction with Spinefarm Records in the UK, announces the first-ever solo album release from legendary guitarist/vocalist George Thorogood, titled PARTY OF ONE, which will be available worldwide on August 4. The album will feature 15 cuts of traditional blues, classics and modern blues songs.

PARTY OF ONE was produced by Grammy-winner Jim Gaines, who returns to the fold for this debut solo project, having produced several of Thorogoods biggest albums to date. The albums primarily acoustic instrumentation including slide, Dobro and harmonica is performed entirely by Thorogood, raw an stripped down, with an intimate one-on-one feel.

Says Thorogood: I think this is a project thats long overdue. Maybe it should have been the very first album I ever made. After playing with the band for all these years, I had to kind of reverse my hands and my head in order to do this thing justice. But I think Destroyers fans and hard-core blues fans, too are ready for the unexpected. My whole career, Ive always said, Just give them what you are, and theyre either going to dig it or not. This record is what I was, what I am, and what I always will be.

Says Rounder co-founder Ken Irwin: Georges coming back is a nice completing of the circle. This record shows his talent as a storyteller in a very different setting, with all the emotion in his guitar and vocals. Its a really intimate record, but its unmistakably a George Thorogood record, too.

Over the course of the last four decades, George Thorogood, with his long-time legendary band, The Destroyers, has sold more than 15 million albums, released 16 studio albums including six gold and two platinum discs and performed more than 8,000 live shows. George Thorogood and the Destroyers catalogue of hits includes Who Do You Love?, I Drink Alone, One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, Move It On Over, Get A Haircut and the anthemic Bad To The Bone.