Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California, USA, in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat Blues", a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "canned heat". After appearances at Monterey and Woodstock, at the end of the 1960s the band acquired worldwide fame with a lineup consisting of Bob Hite, vocals, Alan Wilson guitar, harmonica and vocals, Henry Vestine (or Harvey Mandel) on lead guitar, Larry Taylor on bass, and Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra on drums.
The music and attitude of Canned Heat afforded them a large following and established the band as one of the popular acts of the hippie era. Canned Heat appeared at most major musical events at the end of the 1960s and they were able to deliver on stage electrifying performances of blues standards and their own material and occasionally to indulge into lengthier 'psychedelic' solos. Two of their songs - "Going Up the Country" and "On the Road Again" - became international hits; both were re-workings of obscure blues.
Canned Heat is the 1967 debut album by Canned Heat. It was released shortly after their appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival, and features performances of several blues covers.
Track listing:
1. "Rollin' and Tumblin'" (Muddy Waters) – 3:11
2. "Bullfrog Blues" (William Harris) – 2:20
3. "Evil Is Going On" (Willie Dixon) – 2:24
4. "Goin' Down Slow" (St. Louis Jimmy Oden) – 3:48
5. "Catfish Blues" (Robert Petway) – 6:48
6. "Dust My Broom" (Robert Johnson, Elmore James) – 3:18
7. "Help Me" (Sonny Boy Williamson II) – 3:12
8. "Big Road Blues" (Tommy Johnson) – 3:15
9. "The Story of My Life" (Guitar Slim) – 3:43
10. "The Road Song" (Floyd Jones) – 3:16
11. "Rich Woman" (Dorothy LaBostrie, McKinley Millet) – 3:04
12, "Got My Mojo Workin'" (Foster, Muddy Waters) - 2:42
Personnel:
* Bob Hite – vocals
* Alan Wilson – Slide Guitar, vocals, Harmonica
* Henry Vestine– Lead guitar
* Larry Taylor – Electric Bass
* Frank Cook – drums
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