A high-energy blues-rock band that came out of Delaware in the 1970s, featuring George Thorogood on guitar and vocals, Jeff Simon on drums and Billy Blough on bass.

Their raucous, slide guitar-stoked, blues-rock takes on tunes by Chuck Berry, Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley and others helped land them a contract with Rounder Records.

They moved to Boston before their second album for Rounder, Move It On Over, struck big with the title track. They added a saxophonist (Hank Carter) and further success came in the 1980s through a signing to EMI Records, which released a series of gold records by the band. These included 1982’s Bad to the Bone and 1988’s Born to Be Bad.

The 1990s saw more hits with 1993’s Haircut and albums followed into the new millennium with 2003’s Ride ‘Til I Die (on Eagle Records) and a 2004 Capitol compilation.

The Destroyers have expanded through the years; they now include not only Simon and Blough, but guitarist Jim Suhler (a Texan who was brought aboard in 1999) and saxophonist Buddy Leach, who joined in 2003.