Dave Stewart sings Make You Feel My Love
for Bobby’s birthday!
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Linda Ronstadt - I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
Linda Ronstadt - I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
oh and you just know it
Canned Heat - Boogie With Canned Heat (1968 USA, 2017 remaster and expanded)
Canned Heat - Boogie With Canned Heat (1968 USA, 2017 remaster and expanded)
In 1967 Canned Heat signed to Liberty Records after appearing at the Monterey Pop Festival. In July 1967, they released a self-titled album that made No.76 on the album chart, following it with Boogie With Canned Heat on 21 January 1968, which spent over a year on the Billboard chart, peaking at No.16.
Whereas their debut album was largely made up of covers, including the almost obligatory, for a blues band, take on Dust My Broom’, their second album was largely self-written and remains a firm favourite with just about everyone who loves the blues. A significant reason for its success is because it included the magnificent, ‘On the Road Again’ which made No.16 on the Hot 100 in the late summer of 1968.
Chicago bluesman Floyd Jones recorded a song entitled ‘On the Road Again’ in 1953, itself a remake of another of his songs from two years earlier called, Dark Road’. Both these songs are based on Tommy Johnson’s 1928 ‘Big Road Blues’. ‘On the Road Again’ was recorded as a demo by Canned Heat in April 1967 at the RCA Studios in Chicago with original drummer Frank Cook. This version was over 7 minutes long, with added harp and guitar solos.
During the recording of Boogie With Canned Heat they recorded it again, this time with new drummer Adolfo “Fito” de la Parra at the Liberty Records studio in Los Angeles In September 1967. Blind Owl Wilson used verses from Floyd Jones’ ‘On the Road Again’ and ‘Dark Road’, as well as adding some of his own lyrics; ‘On the Road Again’ went to No.8 in the UK.
‘On the Road Again’ uses a one-chord boogie riff inspired by John Lee Hooker’s 1949 hit ‘Boogie Chillen’ that is made so distinctive by Wilson’s best Skip James-inspired falsetto vocal”, and his fabulous harp playing.
Other stand out cuts include ‘World in a Jug’, the B-side of ‘On the Road Again’, ‘Amphetamine Annie’ and the 11 minute plus, ‘Fried Hockey Boogie’ that the band reworked as ‘Woodstock Boogie’ when they played the festival in August 1969.
Besides five man band the album also features a cameo from pianist, Sunnyland Slim on ‘Turpentine Moan’. Dr John also plays piano on the album and did the horn arrangements; his own debut album, Gris Gris was released the same day in 1968, 21 January.
by Richard Havers, January 21, 2019
Tracks
1. Evil Woman (Larry Weiss) - 3:00
2. My Crime (Bob Hite, Alan Wilson, Henry Vestine, Larry Taylor, Adolfo de la Parra) - 4:01
3. On The Road Again (Floyd Jones, Alan Wilson) - 4:58
4. World In A Jug (Bob Hite, Alan Wilson, Henry Vestine, Larry Taylor, Adolfo de la Parra) - 3:27
5. Turpentine Woman (Bob Hite, Alan Wilson, Henry Vestine, Larry Taylor, Adolfo de la Parra) - 2:58
6. Whiskey Headed Woman No. 2 (Bob Hite) - 2:56
7. Amphetamine Annie (Bob Hite, Alan Wilson, Henry Vestine, Larry Taylor, Adolfo de la Parra) - 3:37
8. An Owl Song (Alan Wilson) - 2:47
9. Marie Laveau (Henry Vestine) - 5:15
10.Fried Hockey Boogie (Larry Taylor) - 11:11
11.The Hunter (Carl Wells, Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr., Booker T. Jones, Donald Dunn) - 3:39
12.Whiskey And Wommen' (John Lee Hooker) - 4:01
13.Shake, Rattle And Roll (Charles E. Calhoun) - 2:44
14.Mean Old World (Marion "Little Walter" Jacobs) - 3:27
15.Fannie Mae (Buster Brown, Clarence Lewis, Bobby Robinson) - 3:07
16.Gotta Boogie (The World Boogie) (John Lee Hooker) - 9:57
Canned Heat
*Bob Hite - Vocals
*Alan Wilson - Slide Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica
*Henry Vestine - Lead Guitar
*Larry Taylor - Bass
*Adolfo De La Parra - Drums
Additional Personnel
*Dr. John - Horn Arrangements, Piano
*Sunnyland Slim - Piano On
UK version bought when it hit over here . . . . . . great album and I bought it largely on account of waking up in total darkness at a festival to them boogying my bottom off! . . . . true story!
Canned Heat Amphetamine Annie
Birthdays - JAMES TAYLOR (78)
Happy birthday to James Taylor, born in Boston, Massachusetts on this day in 1948.
Thanks for the reminder guys but I really don’t need to hear another version of Fire and Rain so . . . .
James Taylor - Whenever You're Ready (from Pull Over)
The Beatles - Nowhere Man (live) | TWILIGHTZONE!
. . . . “Just a little dance hall band . . . . . “
. . . check the bass production on the one
Clip from The Beatles Anthology, episode 5.
Captain Beefheart - Grow Fins [The Spotlight Kid] | jt1674
. . .as straight a blues as the Captain ever got really . . . . . now here ya come baby, with your tail dragging the gravy, you know your Ps & Qs, what you don’t know woman is you’re giving me the blues . . . . you got juice on yer chin, eggs on the drainboard, . . .I’m gonna grown fins get back inna water, take up with a mermaid
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