Canned Heat
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Canned Heat: The Troubadour, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Tony Leigh, KRLA Beat, 13 January 1968
CANNED HEAT, a blues oriented group that bases itself in the Los Angeles area, opened at the Troubadour to an enthusiastic audience. The response from ...
Interview by Tony Leigh, KRLA Beat, 27 January 1968
CANNED HEAT plays the Blues. Not the Blues of the 1920s and '30s, but an extension of that sound, that era, brought up to date ...
Report by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 1 March 1968
DETROIT IS turning into ROCK CITY before our eyes, and we love it! All over the country groups are being "discovered, " and cities like ...
Jefferson Airplane, Fever Tree, Canned Heat: The Kaleidoscope, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 25 March 1968
Rock Club Opens in Hollywood ...
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 1968
Springfield Plays Farewell Concert ...
Platter Chatter: albums from Steppenwolf, Jimi Hendrix et al
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, July 1968
STEPPENWOLF is a magnificent first album by a magnificent quintet of the same name. It's the conventional guitar, drums, organ line-up, but the best we've ...
Canned Heat: Coming from the States in September — A Hard Blues and Rock Group
Profile by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 17 August 1968
CANNED HEAT, who crept into the bottom of the chart last week at 28 with 'On The Road Again' are a hard blues and rock ...
Get set to boogie with Canned Heat
Interview by Judith Sims, Disc and Music Echo, 24 August 1968
JUDY SIMS in Los Angeles interviews the new British chartbusters ...
Canned Heat — Putting Blues Back on its Feet Again
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 31 August 1968
"WE ARE a country blues band. That's our main bag," said Bob "The Bear" Hite, lead singer of Canned Heat, the West Coast blues band ...
Canned Heat, The Group That Refused To Be A Juke Box And Got Fired
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 14 September 1968
AFTER THE tensions and hatred of America, Canned Heat, who claim they are the only white country blues group in the world, have found London ...
Canned Heat: Revolution, London
Live Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 14 September 1968
"IT'S A LOW-down... dirty shame," sang big Bob Hite, lead singer with Canned Heat, when the American blues group in the NME Chart with 'On ...
Canned Heat Have Sunflower, Bear & Tree Man!
Report by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 21 September 1968
THIS IS the story of Canned Heat, a young lady, myself and the Incredible Sliding Bed (in fact, two Incredible Sliding Beds). You are invited ...
Canned Heat Adds Blues to Its Rock: Band at the Fillmore East Performs With Power
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 23 November 1968
CANNED HEAT is a soulful rock group that escaped from the psychedelic badlands of California and now is working hard to become the top blues ...
Dusty Springfield: 'Son Of A Preacher Man'; Canned Heat: 'Going Up The Country'
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 30 November 1968
Dusty: this might be that elusive smash... ...
The Newport Pop Festival: Two Days of Surprises, Flowers, Cream Pies... and Super Sounds!
Live Review by Carol Deck, Flip, December 1968
THE ONLY THING really wrong with the Newport Pop Festival held recently in Orange Country, Calif, was that it wasn't in Monterey. ...
Canned Heat Fight Blues Prejudice
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 8 February 1969
LIBERTY RECORDS took their time releasing Canned Heat's 'Going Up Country', follow-up to 'On The Road Again', and frankly I had thought that the heat ...
Canned Heat: Livin' The Blues (Liberty) The Band: Music From Big Pink (Capitol)
Review by Charlie Gillett, Times Educational Supplement, 14 March 1969
IF YOU'RE A young white man who digs the blues and who likes to make music, what do you do about it? Your decision used ...
Essay by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 16 June 1969
"All new technologies bring on the cultural blues, just as the old ones evoke phantom pain after they have disappeared." — Marshall McLuhan, War and ...
Report by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 1 September 1969
"Man, what done got into them ofays?" one asked. "It ain't nothing. They just trying to get back, that's all" "Get back?" said the ...
Various artists: Woodstock (Atlantic: 2663 001)
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 17 July 1970
Update, 2020. Woodstock. The name has many meanings. There's Woodstock the town where Bob Dylan and the Band lived once. But the main resonance is ...
Canned Heat: Future Blues (Liberty)
Review by Anne Moore, Phonograph Record, September 1970
CANNED HEAT is back with the familiar boogie blues with their new Liberty album, Future Blues. ...
Canned Heat: Alan Kept Balance
Obituary by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 12 September 1970
THE DEATH of Alan Wilson at the weekend left more than a musical gap in the line-up of Canned Heat. Up against the earthiness and ...
John Sebastian, Canned Heat, Eric Burdon & War et al: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 19 September 1970
JOHN SEBASTIAN brought a little sunshine into a gloomy Hyde Park, London, on Saturday. ...
Canned Heat: Future Blues (Liberty)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 26 September 1970
Heat are as good as ever — but there's a note of sadness ...
Canned Heat: The People Leave Hyde Park Slowly
Report by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 29 October 1970
LONDON — Rain is sloshing down all the streets and windows, and when Bob Hite of Canned Heat wakes up in his hotel room in ...
The Animals, Canned Heat and Guess Who albums
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, March 1971
The Animals With Eric Burdon: In The Beginning (Wand) Canned Heat: Live At Topanga Corral (Wand) Guess Who: Shakin' All Over (Scepter) ...
John Lee Hooker, Canned Heat: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 17 April 1971
Hooker Performs With a Pop Group He Helped Inspire ...
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, July 1971
RECOGNITION AS an outstanding musician hasn't come overnight for Harvey Mandel, but he prefers it that way. He's been moving up slowly and steadily and ...
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 1 July 1972
THE drive out to Topanga Canyon from Hollywood along Sunset is quite a heady experience in itself and when Bob "The Bear" Hite is there ...
Canned Heat: One More River To Cross
Review by Harold Bronson, Rolling Stone, 28 February 1974
ONE WOULD EXPECT that with its new label, Atlantic, and rejuvenated line-up (which includes Bob Hite, vocals; Henry Vestine, guitar; Fito de la Pareda, drums; ...
Canned Heat: The Fire's Lit — The Heat Is On
Interview by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 2 March 1974
THE INDUSTRY of music hangs like the sword of Damocles over its performers. At any turn an artist may be erased from the books by ...
Canned Heat: One More River To Cross
Review by John Swenson, Zoo World, 14 March 1974
CANNED HEAT is one of those groups who hang on by the skin of their teeth, jumping over a spate of mediocre albums from success ...
Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, October 1975
LARRY TAYLOR is not one of your loud bass players; rather, he opts for minimum volume so he can punctuate and accent his playing with ...
Canned Heat: Live At Topanga Corral
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 5 June 1976
WHITE PLAGIARISTS almost killed the blues as a vital force in popular music. The perpetual rip-off of Elmore James' phrases, and the piquant cries of ...
Chet Helms: Rockin' back to the 60s scene
Profile and Interview by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 29 September 1978
CHET HELMS was the great visionary of the innocent early days of San Francisco's rock music and hippie scene. ...
Obituary by Bill Bentley, L.A. Weekly, 16 April 1981
DEATH HAS no mercy. It's a blues line that applies to everyone, naturally, just as it did to Bob Hite, 38, leader and "Bear" extraordinaire ...
Canned Heat: Still On The Road Again
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Gabriel, DISCoveries, August 1994
"I BELIEVE WE had the biggest response, of any group [at Woodstock]," says Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra, Canned Heat's drummer, who appeared with them ...
Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, October 1994
WHILE BRITAIN WAS IN THE THROES of blues-boom mania in the late '60s, American youth had little time for that particular shade of black music. ...
School of Rock: Monterey to Altamont
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, 2008
BETWEEN 1966 and 1970, there was a seismic change in British and American pop. Within a few short years "pop" became "rock", and teenagers who'd ...
Canned Heat: The badass blues band that death couldn't kill
Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, January 2015
PICTURE THE SCENE: April 4, 1981, outside the World Famous Palomino Club in North Hollywood. The members of Canned Heat and their friends are smoking ...
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