⚔️ Band Canned Heat 🌎 Country United States of America (USA) (US) 

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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 (guitar, harmonica and vocals), Henry Vestine and later Harvey Mandel (lead guitar), Larry Taylor (bass), and Adolfo de la Parra (drums).

The music and attitude of Canned Heat attracted 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, performing blues standards along with their own material and occasionally indulging in lengthy “psychedelic” solos. Three of their songs — “Going Up the Country”, “On the Road Again”, and “Let’s Work Together” — became international hits.

Greg Lindstrom: Early on in 1971-72 we were playing all cover songs: … ‘Refried Boogie’ (Canned Heat) … (Psychedelic Baby Mag)

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