CANNED HEAT (ABO#028)

CANNED HEAT

AND DON'T FORGET TO BOOGIE !

Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie band that formed in Los Angeles 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 has desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "canned heat". After appearances at Monterey and Woodstock, at the end of the '60s the band had acquired worldwide notoriety 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. Since the early '70s numerous personnel changes have occurred and today, in the fifth decade of the band's existence, Fito de la Parra is the only original member from the glorious epoch. He has authored a book about the band's career. Larry Taylor, whose presence in the band has not been steady, is the other surviving member from the earliest lineups. Harvey Mandel, Walter Trout and Junior Watson are among the guitarists who gained notoriety for playing in later editions of the band. Alan Wilson sadly died in 1970, while Bob 'the bear' Hite passed away in 1981. (source : Wikipedia)

CD1:

1. Bulfrog Blues

2. Evil Woman

3. On The Road Again

4. World In A Jug

5. Chimpmunk's Song

6. Sandy's Blues

7. Going Up The Country

8. Woodstock Boogie

9. Sic'em Pigs

10. Get Off My Back

11. My Time Ain't Long

12. So Sad (The World's In A Tangle)

13. Wooly Bully

14. Send Me Your Pillow (w/ John Lee Hooker)

15. Alimonia Blues (w/ John Lee Hooker)

CD2:

1. Boogie Chillen n°2 (w/ John Lee Hooker)

2. I Don't Care What You Tell Me

3. Cherokee Dance

4. Harley Davidson Blues

5. So Long Wrong

6. I Need Someone

7. You Am What You Am

8. Down The Big Road (w/ Memphis Slim)

9. Louisiana Breakdown

10. Kings Of Boogie

11. Going Up The Country

12. Remember Woodstock

13. Gorgo Blues

14. 50,000 Boogies

15. Too Much Giddyup

16. Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive

My Canned Heat TOP 3 :
1. Boogie With Canned Heat (1968)
2. Hooker 'n' Heat (1971)
3. Historical Figures (1972)

My Canned Heat BOTTOM 3 :
1. Reheated (1989)
2. Friends In The Can (2003)
3. Internal Combustion (1994)