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Boogie-woogie blues rockers Canned Heat serve up a gyrating platter of previously-unleashed material, all recorded during three separate studio sessions. The album's final three cuts ("Reefer Blues", "You Tease Me" and "Something's Gotta Go") are the final recorded output from Heat founder/guitarist Alan Wilson, who committed suicide a few weeks after these studio sessions were made. The album kicks off with the good-time party ambience of "Saturday Night Fish Fry". Track four, "Drunk", is a reeling 'n' rocking slab of slide guitar magic. Then there's the rhythm and blues grinder, "Harry's Open Pit and Bar B Que".Canned Heat fell by the wayside in the '70s with the advent of disco and punk rock, but while those musical stylings have a tendency to come off as cliche and dated today, the Heat's blistering rhythm and blues still sounds as fresh and new as the day it was canned.
"I never will forget the first time I heard the Wolfman howl . . scared me half to death".Angela Strehli , Two Bit Texas Town from Blonde & Blue
You old scholar you. This album, btw, is engineered by Bill Schnee who engineered for Sheffield Labs direct-to-disc records and it's sound is excellent. She wrote that tune and three others on the album/CD. Anybody who likes R&B should jump on this one like a duck on a bug!