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Living the Blues

The best of Canned Heat is exactly what Canned Heat wants it to be: good-rockin blues music suitable for balling, dancing, doping, boozing, whatever your thing happens to be, all of them at once maybe. It's a tight band with a tough bass player and a heavy lead guitar, and, if only these were the...

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Canned Heat 1969-1999: The Boogie House Tapes, Vol. 2

2004

Canned Heat/Boogie with Canned Heat

2003

Historical Figures and Ancient Heads [UK]

2002

The New Age

1973

Future Blues

1970

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Biography

Canned Heat was rare among the American blues-loving bands of the late '60s and early '70s: The group had a few hits. As one critic noted, the musicians were more popularizers than purists. The 1981 death of cofounder Bob Hite essentially ended Canned Heat's most visible period, but the players have always persevered. They endured Al Wilson's death in 1970 and weathered dozens of personnel shifts ...

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