Album: Historical Figures and Ancient Heads by Canned Heat (1972)
Format: Album

Artist Background: Canned Heat is an American blues/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. 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... Part of the Los Angeles, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1960s era. Associated with Rock movement. Known for Blues style.

Related Artists: Ten Years After, Johnny Winter, John Mayall, Steppenwolf

Music Scene: Part of the Los Angeles, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1960s era. Associated with Rock movement. Known for Blues style.

Tags: 1970s, Album


Historical Figures and Ancient Heads

Canned Heat

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