Canned Heat – Finyl Vinyl (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:03 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Blues Rock, Boogie Rock
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Los Angeles, 1965: Blues enthusiasts Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson (1943-1970) and Bob “The Bear” Hite (1943-1981) together with like-minded musicians found Canned Heat. They name the band after the title of a 1928 song by bluesman Tommy Johnson about a fuel containing methyl alcohol, also referred to as “canned heat”, which is misused by alcoholics as a substitute drug. In 1967 drummer Adolfo “Fito” de la Parra who is still a member today joins Canned Heat, while otherwise the band has seen a lot of personnel turnover in the course of its history. One year later Canned Heat’s successful hit single “On The Road Again” makes them popular worldwide. Following this chart success they have further hits with “Going Up The Country” (1968) and “Let’s Work Together” (1970). In August 1969 Canned Heat are part of the line-up of the legendary “Woodstock Music & Art Fair”. Apart from band albums such as their eponymous debut LP from 1967 or “Boogie With Canned Heat” from the following year they are featured on collaborations with genre greats such as John Lee Hooker (“Hooker ‘n Heat”, 1971), Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown (“Gate’s On The Heat”, 1973) or Memphis Slim (“Memphis Heat”, 1974).
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Canned Heat – Songs From The Road (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:01 minutes | 895 MB | Genre: Blues
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The world turns. Fashions change. Bands rise and fall. But you can’t stop the boogie. Fifty years after Canned Heat was founded by blues scholars Bob ‘The Bear’ Hite and Alan ‘Blind Owl’ Wilson in Topanga Canyon, California, the West Coast legends just keep rolling on down the road. “We’re all amazed and thankful that we’re still here,” explain the band, “living our dreams of making a living doing what we all love. Playing the blues, travelling the world and giving a taste of the boogie to audiences everywhere.”
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Canned Heat – Living The Blues (1968/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:28:13 minutes | 3,37 GB | Genre: Rock
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Canned Heat’s third album Living The Blues from 1968 includes their 19-minute tour de force, Parthenogenesis which displays the band at their most experimental. Also featured is their incarnation of Henry Thomas’s Bull-Doze Blues where singer Al Wilson retained the tune of the original song, rewrote the lyrics and came up with Goin’ Up The Country, whose simple message caught the back-to-nature attitude of the late 1960s. The song went to number one in 25 countries around the world and became the unofficial theme song of Woodstock.
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Canned Heat – Boogie With Canned Heat (1968/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:44 minutes | 1,69 GB | Genre: Rock
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Canned Heat’s second album, released in 1968, includes their first hit single and one of the band’s signature songs, On The Road Again. On this release the psychedelic blues rockers loosen up a bit from their debut, moving toward rock while retaining their blues foundation. However, there is no indication on Boogie of the even looser improvisational material that was yet to come. In addition to On The Road Again the album includes two other Canned Heat favourites, Amphetamine Annie and Evil Woman, as well as a 12-minute version of Fried Hockey Boogie that established them with hippie audiences as “kings of the boogie.” This release features the classic Canned Heat lineup of Bob “The Bear” Hite, Al “Blind Owl” Wilson, drummer Bob Cook, Henry Vestine on guitar and bassist Larry Taylor.
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