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The music and attitude of Canned Heat attracted 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, performing blues standards along with their own material and occasionally indulging in lengthy "psychedelic" solos.
For the instrumental accompaniment, Canned Heat uses a "basic E/G/A blues chord pattern" [4] or "one-chord boogie riff" adapted from John Lee Hooker's 1949 hit "Boogie Chillen'". [9] Expanding on Jones' hypnotic drone, Wilson used an Eastern string instrument called a tambura to give the song a psychedelic ambience.
"Going Up the Country" (also "Goin' Up the Country") is a song adapted and recorded by American blues rock band Canned Heat. Called a "rural hippie anthem", [3] it became one of the band's biggest hits and best-known songs. [4] As with their previous single, "On the Road Again", the song was adapted from a 1920s blues song and sung by Alan Wilson.
Boogie with Canned Heat is the second studio album by American blues and rock band Canned Heat. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Released in 1968, it contains mostly original material, unlike their debut album . It was the band's most commercially successful album, reaching number 16 in the US and number 5 in the UK.
Hallelujah is the fourth album by Canned Heat, released in 1969. It was re-released on CD in 2001 by MAM productions with four bonus tracks. It was the last album to feature classic lineup mark 1, as Vestine left the band prior to Future Blues.
The song features the refrain "canned heat, mama, sure, Lord, killing me." The blues group Canned Heat took their name from this song. [3] Johnson's "Big Road Blues" inspired Canned Heat's song "On the Road Again". A significantly different version of the song appears as "Canned Heat" on the album Big Road Blues by K. C. Douglas.
Future Blues is the fifth album by American blues and rock band Canned Heat, released in 1970.It was the last to feature the band's classic lineup, as Larry Taylor and Harvey Mandel had both departed by July 1970, prior to its release to record with John Mayall and songwriter Alan Wilson died shortly after on September 3, 1970.
"Canned Heat" is the second single from British funk group Jamiroquai's fourth studio album, Synkronized (1999). Released on 24 May 1999, it became their second number-one single on the US Dance Club Songs chart, becoming one of their biggest U.S. hits [ 2 ] and peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart .