Canned Heat

Canned Heat has sold more records than any other blues band in music history!

Canned Heat is the only blues band to ever have three Number One records worldwide!

“On The Road Again” “Going Up The Country” “Let’s Work Together”

Canned Heat has played more Festivals, worldwide, than any other band of any kind in history!

Canned Heat has played more “Motorcycle Events & Festivals” than any other band of any kind in history!

Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists.

After appearances at Monterey and Woodstock, at the end of the 1960s the band acquired worldwide fame with a lineup consisting of Bob Hite, vocals, Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson, guitar, harmonica and vocals, Henry Vestine (or Harvey Mandel) on lead guitar, Larry Taylor on bass, and Adolfo “Fito” de la Parra on drums.

The music and attitude of Canned Heat afforded them a large following and established the band as one of the popular acts of the hippie era.

Canned Heat appeared at most major musical events at the end of the 1960s and they were able to deliver on stage electrifying performances of blues standards and their own material and occasionally to indulge into lengthier ‘psychedelic’ solos. Two of their songs – “Going Up the Country” and “On the Road Again” – became international hits. “Going Up the Country” was a remake of the Henry Thomas (blues musician) song “Bulldoze Blues” recorded in Louisville, Kentucky in 1927. “On the Road Again” was a cover version/re-working of the 1953 Floyd Jones song of the same name, which is reportedly based on the Tommy Johnson song “Big Road Blues” recorded in 1928.

Fito de la Parra: drums/vocal
Rick Reed: bass/guitar
John Paulus: bass
Dale Spalding: vocals/guitar/harmonica

“And don’t forget to boogie!”