Canned Heat

About

Canned Heat is an American blues and rock band that was formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its efforts to promote interest in blues music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson’s 1928 “Canned Heat Blues”, a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called “canned heat”. After appearances at the Monterey and Woodstock festivals at the end of the 1960s, the band acquired worldwide fame with a lineup of Hite (vocals), Wilson, Henry Vestine and later Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor (bass), and Adolfo de la Parra (drums).

Albums/Songs:

• Canned Heat
• Hallelujah
• One More River to Cross
• Collage
• Boogie Up the Country
• Vintage
• Finyl Vinyl
• Internal Combustion
• Eternal Boogie
• The Classic Collection
• Canned Heat Cookbook
• Boogie 2000
• Blues Band
• Reheated
• Living the Blues
• Canned Heat
• The New Age
• Human Condition
• Kings of the Boogie
• Hooker ’n Heat
• Friends in the Can
• Boogie With Canned Heat
• Future Blues
• Historical Figures and Ancient Heads
• Christmas Album

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