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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.
Canned Heat "World in a Jug" b/w "Evil Woman" - - - Boogie with Canned Heat: 1968 "On the Road Again" b/w "Boogie Music" (from Living the Blues) 16 8 8 "The Christmas Blues" b/w "The Chipmunk Song" with The Chipmunks - - - Non-album tracks "Going Up the Country" b/w "One Kind Favor" 11 19 5 Living the Blues: 1969 "Time Was" b/w Low Down" 67 ...
"On the Road Again" first appeared on their second album, Boogie with Canned Heat, in January 1968. An edited version was released as a single in April 1968 on the Liberty label and became Canned Heat's first record chart hit and one of their best-known songs.
"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.
The Best of Canned Heat is a two-disc CD set issued in 1994 that features various tracks from previous albums and some previously unreleased tracks. Highlights include an alternate, longer take of " On the Road Again ," and the first release of " Let's Work Together " in stereo.
Let's Work Together: The Best of Canned Heat is a compilation album by Canned Heat, released in 1989. [1] All of the songs are taken from the first five albums released on Liberty Records between 1966 and 1970, except for "Rockin' with the King", which is from the United Artists Records album Historical Figures and Ancient Heads (1971).
Boogie with Canned Heat includes the top 10 hit "On the Road Again", one of their best-known songs. "Amphetamine Annie", a warning about the dangers of amphetamine abuse, also received considerable airplay. "Fried Hockey Boogie" was the first example of one of Canned Heat's boogies, or loose jams. When released on CD in 2005, six tracks ...
In the UK, where Harrison's single failed to generate interest, Canned Heat's version was released in January 1970. [8] There it became their biggest hit, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart during a stay of fifteen weeks. [9] In the US, Canned Heat's "Let's Work Together" was first released on August 3, 1970, on their album, Future Blues.