Formed by record collectors, historians and music obsessives Alan "Blind Owl"
Wilson and Bob "The Bear" Hite in 1966, Canned Heat turned their favourite,
obscure blues tracks into groove laden boogies to become one of LA's most
acclaimed bands of the era. Taking their name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 track
Canned Heat Blues, the group started writing their own material and came to fame
when second album Boogie With Canned Heat (1968) produced what would become
their biggest hit, On The Road Again - adapted from a Floyd Jones song. The
acclaimed Living The Blues (1968) album brought...