Re: Anyone Mention Canned heat? Yay! It's from their self-titled album, one of my favorite blues albums of all time. That track, among with Catfish Blues, Bullfrog Blues, Dust My Broom and Goin' Down Slow are the best tracks on that album.
Re: Anyone Mention Canned heat? Hooker n Heat is a good one, especially if you enjoy hearing a genuine bluesman. It is more Heat than Hooker though.
Re: Anyone Mention Canned heat? 2010 Upcoming Tourdates ~ On The Road Again WRL Denotes the "Woodstock Reunited Lineup" with Fito, Dale Spalding, Larry "The Mole" Taylor and Harvey "The Snake" Mandel H.O.W. Denotes a "Heroes of Woodstock" show that will include four or five of the following bands... Jefferson Starship, Ten Years After, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Melanie, John Sebastian and will be hosted by Country Joe McDonald May 29 Topanga, CA 37th Annual Topanga Days Country Fair WRL, CH as Very Special Guests June 11 Atlantic City, NJ House Of Blues 4-man H.O.W. with Barry June 13 Pittsburgh, PA Amphitheater at Station Square 4-man H.O.W. with Barry June 19 Effingham, IL Legacy HarleyDavidson 4-man H.O.W. with Barry June 26 New Braunfels, TX White Water Amphitheater 4-man H.O.W. with Barry July 3 Butte, MT Montana Tech Stadium 4-man H.O.W. with Harvey July 9 Turku, Finland Ruisrock Festival WRL July 10 Wiesen, Austria Lovely Days Festival WRL July 13 Barcelona, Spain Luz de Gas WRL July 14 San Javier, Spain Festival Of Jazz WRL July 15 Madrid, Spain Heineken WRL July 16 Salamanca, Spain Bejar Blues Fesival WRL July 17 Suwalki, Poland Suwalki Blues Festival WRL July 21 Knokke Heist, Belgium Kneifesfestival WRL July 24 Leipzig, Germany Villa Park Open Air WRL July 25 Maryport, England Maryport Blues Festival WRL, Robert Cray Closes July 27 Dortmund, Germany Stobel Open Air Festival WRL July 28 Aschaffenburg, Germany Colos-Saal (Club, 800 capacity) WRL July 30 Regensburg, Germany Villa Park Open Air WRL August 1 Trasimeno, Italy Open Air Festival WRL August 20 Worpswede, Germany Music Hall WRL August 21 Wespelaar, Belgium Swing Blues Festival WRL August 23 Osnabruck, Germany Rosenhof WRL August 24 Bonn, Germany Museumsmeile WRL with Status Quo August 25 Pfullendorf, Germany Festhalle WRL August 26 Sierre, Switzerland Sierre Blues Festival WRL August 27 Arbon, Switzerland Summer Days Festival WRL August 28 Verviers, Belgium Fiesta City 2010 Festival WRL August 29 Hannover, Germany Music Center WRL with Jethro Tull September 3 Wohlen, Switzerland Allrad Music Festival WRL
Re: Anyone Mention Canned heat? O: Why they don't come to Croatia, and why do they come to Germany like 10 times?
Re: Anyone Mention Canned heat? Hooker N Heat and The Howlin Wolf Sessions are my two favorite blues albums.
Re: Canned Heat In memory of Alan Wilson! July 4, 1943 / September 3, 1970 On September 3, 1970 Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson guitarist and songwriter with Canned Heat* was found dead at fellow band members Bob Hite's garden in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles aged 27**. With Canned Heat, Wilson performed at two prominent concerts of the 1960s era, the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and Woodstock in 1969. Canned Heat appeared in the film Woodstock, and the band's 'Going Up the Country,' which Wilson sang, has been referred to as the festival's unofficial theme song. Wilson also wrote 'On the Road Again,' arguably Canned Heat's second most familiar song. * Canned Heat is a cocktail drink made from Sterno. For those not in the know, Sterno is a portable heating fuel, made from what is essentially ethanol and methanol and a couple of other things, none of which is good for you, to put it mildly. The Sterno is poured through a sock or rag to filter out the methanol and mixed with water or alcohol or whatever was on hand. Sterno was especially popular during the prohibition. ** The 27 club is a group of well known musicians that have died at the age of 27. It's pertinence to the Blues is that it's founder and, arguably, it's most famous member is none other than Robert Johnson himself, who died under mysterious circumstances at the Three Forks Store in Greenwood, Mississippi at 27 years old, after claiming to have sold his soul to the Devil. Eerily, many of the musicians who have "joined the club" at 27 have directly cited Robert Johnson as a major influence. Some of the most famous members are Kurt Kobain of Nirvana, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison of The Doors, Alan Wilson of Canned Heat, and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, all of which had very heavy Blues influences, including Johnson, and often covered Blues songs, including Johnson's. Every one of their lives parallelled that of Johnson's in certain ways, adding to the eerie coincidence. Eric Clapton, who also cites that Robert Johnson is probably his biggest influence, was purportedly the originator of the term "27 Club", stating that he himself was almost a member when he was fighting an addiction. Source: This Day in Music.com and Blues t-shirts & Blues music | Buy blues music | Sell your blues CDs | Find blues history on Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and others | Bluescentric
