Canned Heat - Marianhill, Arcen, Netherlands, 8-12-1971
Unfortunately, one of the band's two lead singers and leaders, Alan Wilson, died in 1970. So he's not on this recording. But on the plus side, two of the band's three hits are here: "Let's Work Together" and "Goin' Up the Country." The version of "Goin' Up the Country" is very different from the hit version, being much faster and more rocking. Personally, I don't like it as much, but I give them points for trying something different anyway.
On most of the songs, the lead vocals were rather low in the mix. I fixed that by using the MVSEP program.
This album is 54 minutes long.
01 Let's Work Together
02 talk
03 Hill's Stomp [Instrumental]
04 talk
05 That's All Right
06 talk
07 Goin' Up the Country
08 Long Way from L.A.
09 Pay My Rent Boogie
10 talk
11 Utah
12 Big City
As Paul notes the extraordinary Al Wilson was dead by this recording and his story is tragically sad. Struggling all his life with what we would now call ‘low self esteem’ and he suffered the ‘Blues’ all his life . . . .considered almost homeless at his end ( he was found dead 'camping out' in Bob 'The Bear’ Hite’s back garden)
Univerally acknowledged by many in the guitar blues genre, he suffered from his introverted personality and perhaps his somewhat plain looks meant he had little to no success with the opposite sex and seemed universally lonely, sometimes even on stage. His unique voice (check Going Up The Country and On The Road Again will be forever identified as being remade by him!) and his encyclopaedic knowledge of early blues platters were without equal
After seeing them at the festivals in Southern England I was hooked and bought the first three album but after Al died I kind of left them be
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