"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 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.
Music Genre: |
Boogie Blues Rock |
Album Production Information: |
The album: "The Very Best of Canned Heat" was produced by: Denny Diante |
Record Label Information: |
United Artists UAS 29 831 / UA-LA 431 |
Media Format: |
12" Vinyl Stereo Full-Length Long-Play Gramophone Record Total Album (Cover+LP) weight: 190 gram |
Year & Country: |
1975 Made in West Germany |
Track Listing of: "The Very Best of Canned Heat" |
The Songs/tracks on "The Very Best of Canned Heat" are
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"The Very Best of Canned Heat" Record Label Details: United Artists Records UAS 29 831
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