Latest Release
- AUG 30, 2024
- 10 Songs
- The Best of Canned Heat · 2001
- The Very Best of Canned Heat · 2005
- The Very Best of Canned Heat · 1970
- Living the Blues · 1968
- On the Road Again · 1989
- Hooker 'N Heat · 1971
- The Best of Canned Heat · 1972
- The Very Best of Canned Heat · 2005
- The Very Best of Canned Heat · 2005
- Canned Heat · 1967
Essential Albums
- "I dig this kid's harmonica, man. I don't know how he follow me, but he do." That's what John Lee Hooker says about Canned Heat's Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson in the studio chatter captured on this double-length album. To a bunch of blueshounds like Canned Heat, there could have been no higher praise. Canned Heat were among the most accomplished blues-rock bands of the '60s and '70s, largely because of their natural feeling for the blues, which is amply displayed on this collaboration with Hooker. Instead of trying to squeeze him into their sound or impose themselves upon his, Canned Heat wisely give the blues legend miles of room. The band don't even play on the first half of the album, letting Hooker's mournful moan and stormy guitar stand on their own. When the Heat is finally turned on, they sound like they've been banging out the blues-boogie beat behind Hooker their whole lives. For his part, Hooker sounds uncommonly energized fronting the band on tunes like "Let's Make It" and "Peavine." For this moment in time, music became magical enough to make the generation gap disappear.
- 2024
- 1999
Live Albums
About Canned Heat
Conceived as a blues revivalist group specializing in excavating pre-war gems, Canned Heat anchored their authentic inclinations with a heavy boogie that suited the hippie era. Their ear for blues classics and facility for droning blues jams made them ideal choices for the bills at both Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Their appearance at the latter festival arrived a year after the band had two surprise hit singles with "On the Road Again" and "Going Up the Country" -- two country-blues numbers the Heat modernized thanks in part to Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson's idiosyncratic phrasing. Wilson died just as the band settled into a groove, leaving fellow lead singer Bob "The Bear" Hite to shepherd Canned Heat through the '70s. After Hite's death in 1981, drummer Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra anchored Canned Heat through a revolving lineup that stretched into the 2020s, when they released the farewell Finyl Vinyl.
- ORIGIN
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- FORMED
- 1965
- GENRE
- Rock