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Артист:	Canned Heat
Альбом:	Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat, 1994
Жанр:	Modern Electric Blues, Blues-Rock, Boogie Rock
Формат файла:	EAC-Ape-Cue-Covers
Ссылка:	CD 14 clicks

A hard-luck blues band of the '60s, Canned Heat was founded by blues historians and record collectors Alan Wilson and Bob Hite. They seemed to be on the right track and played all the right festivals (including Monterey and Woodstock, making it very prominently into the documentaries about both) but somehow never found a lasting audience.
Certainly their hearts were in the right place. Canned Heat's debut album — released shortly after their appearance at Monterey — was every bit as deep into the roots of the blues as any other combo of the time mining similar turf, with the exception of the original Paul Butterfield band. Hite was nicknamed "The Bear" and stalked the stage in the time-honored tradition of Howlin' Wolf and other large-proportioned bluesmen. Wilson was an extraordinary harmonica player, with a fat tone and great vibrato. His work on guitar, especially in open tunings (he played on Son House's rediscovery recordings of the mid-'60s, incidentally) gave the band a depth and texture that most other rhythm players could only aspire to. Henry Vestine — another dyed-in-the-wool record collector — was the West Coast's answer to Michael Bloomfield and capable of fretboard fireworks at a moment's notice.

Canned Heat's breakthrough moment occurred with the release of their second album, establishing them with hippie ballroom audiences as the "kings of the boogie." As a way of paying homage to the musician they got the idea from in the first place, they later collaborated on an album with John Lee Hooker that was one of the elder bluesman's most successful outings with a young white (or black, for that matter) combo backing him up. After two big chart hits with "Goin' up the Country" and an explosive version of Wilbert Harrison's "Let's Work Together," Wilson died under mysterious (probably drug-related) circumstances in 1970, and Hite carried on with various reconstituted versions of the band until his death just before a show in 1981, from a heart seizure.

Still, the surviving members — led by drummer Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra — continued touring and recording, recruiting new vocalist Walter Trout; he was replaced in 1985 by James Thornbury, who fronted the band for the next decade. After Thornbury exited in 1995, Canned Heat tapped Robert Lucas to assume lead vocal duties; they soon recorded The Canned Heat Blues Band, which sadly was Vestine's last recording with the group — he died in Paris in December 1997 in the wake of the band's recent tour. Boogie 2000 followed two years later.

Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat is exactly what it claims to be — the definitive portrait of the blues-soaked hippie boogie band. Spreading 41 tracks (including numerous rarities, alternate takes, and Levi commercials) over two CDs, the set is perfect for the hardcore Canned Heat collector. For casual fans, the collection simply contains too much music; they would be better served by the single-disc collection, The Best of Canned Heat.

1. On The Road Again (Alternate Take)
2. Nine Below Zero
3. TV Mama
4. Rollin And Tumbin
5. Bullfrog Blues
6. Evil Is Going On
7. Goin Down Slow
8. Dust My Broom
9. Help Me
10. The Story Of My Life
11. The Hunter
12. Whiskey And Wimmen
13. Shake Rattle And Roll
14. Mean Old World
15. Fannie Mae
16. Gotta Boogie (The World Boogie)
17. My Crime
18. On The Road Again
19. Evil Woman
20. Amphetamine Annie
21. An Owl Song
22. Terraplane Blues
23. Christmas Blues (Alternate Take)
24. Going Up The Country
25. Time Was
26. Low Down (And High Up)
27. Same All Over
28. Big Fat (The Fat Man)
29. Its All Right
30. Poor Man
31. Sugar Bee
32. Shake It And Break It
33. Future Blues
34. Lets Work Together (Lets Stick Together)
35. Wooly Bully
36. Human Condition
37. Long Way From L A
38. Hills Stomp
39. Rockin With The King
40. Harley Davidson Blues
41. Rock And Roll Music

Зер ГУТ! Очень хорошо! Спасибо! С одним воспоминанием об этом блеющем кастрированном голосе тепло стало на душе!

Сатирыч! а мне вот этот бородатый мужик кило так на 120 кого-то напоминает по его собственному описанию....