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"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.
[15] [16] Except in jazz circles, it remained an obscure blues number until blues-rock group Canned Heat recorded "Going Up the Country". Though rearranged, the Canned Heat song is musically the same, down to a faithful rendition of Thomas's quill solos by Jim Horn. The lyrics also borrow from Blind Willie McTell's "Statesboro
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. Three of their songs—"Going Up the Country", "On the Road Again", and "Let's Work Together"—became international hits.
Living the Blues is the third album by Canned Heat, a double album released in late 1968. It was one of the first double albums to place well on album charts. It features Canned Heat's signature song, "Going Up the Country", which would later be used in the Woodstock film. John Mayall appears on piano on "Walking by Myself" and "Bear Wires". Dr.
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).
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.
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Reheated is the twelfth album by Canned Heat, released in 1988.It features two members of the band's classic lineup, Fito de la Parra and Larry Taylor.Among the titles, "Bullfrog Blues" was originally on the B-side of the first single recorded by Canned Heat in 1967; "Built for Comfort" by Willie Dixon was popularized by Howlin' Wolf; "Take Me to the River" is a R&B/soul song which has been ...