Maverick is the sixth studio album by the American blues rock band George Thorogood and the Destroyers.

[3][4] In 1982, the Destroyers signed a recording contract with EMI America,[5] the same year they released their fifth studio album, Bad to the Bone.

[6] The band supported the album with a worldwide concert tour,[7] after which they returned to the United States, picked up their producer, and began recording of Maverick.

[27] The music video for "Willie and the Hand Jive" was produced at the Fifth Floor Productions in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Ellen Goldman and Maureen Arata.

Cash Box wrote that Maverick "should please Thorogood’s many fans while set for a long stay on many AOR playlists.

"[10] AllMusic's Joe Viglione says "George Thorogood is forever consistent and Maverick is more of the blues/rock driving sound the journeyman guitarist is known for.

"[9] Another AllMusic critic, James Christopher Monger, called "Willie and the Hand Jive" and "I Drink Alone" one of Thorogood's "high points.