Name: Living the Blues
Brand: Canned Heat

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BGOCD591

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Limited edition

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2022-06-03

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Canned Heat

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LMLR

Canned Heat is a seminal American blues rock / boogie rock band that was founded in December 1965 in Los Angeles. Known for their energetic performances and unique blend of blues, rock, and boogie-woogie, the band quickly gained popularity in the late 1960s.

With influences from artists such as *Ten Years After*, *John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers*, and *The Yardbirds*, Canned Heat created a distinctive sound that resonated with audiences around the world. Their music often featured powerful guitar riffs, harmonica solos, and soulful vocals.

Throughout their career, Canned Heat released numerous albums and achieved chart success with hits like "On the Road Again" and "Going Up the Country." They became known for their electrifying live performances at festivals such as Woodstock and Monterey Pop Festival.

LMLR is a French label and record company that was established in 1991. Managed by [a5452147], LMLR specializes in reissuing CDs and DVDs from French TV broadcasts. In 2014, the label's commercial activities were relocated to culturefactory.fr, which can be visited at [l189014]. The name LMLR phonetically stands for ELLE AIME L'AIR.

Originally released in 1968 on the Liberty record label. Emerging in 1966, Canned Heat was founded by Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson and Bob 'The Bear' Hite - Hite took the name 'Canned Heat' from a 1928 recording by Tommy Johnson. They gained international attention with their performances at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and at the original Woodstock Festival. They were joined by Henry 'The Sunflower' Vestine, a former member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, Larry 'The Mole' Taylor, an experienced session musician, and Adolfo 'Fito' de la Parra, who had played with T-Bone Walker and Etta James amongst others. Canned Heat's unique blend of modern electric blues, rock and boogie has earned them a loyal following and influenced many bands during the past 35 years. 

Their Top 40 songs, 'On The Road Again', 'Let's Work Together' and 'Going Up The Country', became rock anthems throughout the world. Their second album, Boogie With Canned Heat, included the hit 'On The Road Again' and a twelve minute version of 'Fried Hockey Boogie' that established them with hippie audiences as 'kings of the boogie!' This, their third album, Living The Blues, includes a 19-minute tour de force, 'Parthenogenesis' which displays the quintet attheir most experimental. Also featured is their incarnation of Henry Thomas' 'Bulldozer Blues' where singer Wilson retained the tune of the original song, rewrote the lyric and came up with 'Goin' Up The Country', whose simple message caught the 'back-to-nature' attitude of the late '60s and went to Number One in 25 countries around the world.

Living the Blues

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