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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Canned Heat - On the Road Again

"On the Road Again" a song recorded by the American blues rock group Canned Heat, one of the popular acts of the hippie era,was released as a single in April 1968, and appeared on their 1968 album Boogie with Canned Heat. It was a re-working of the same title blues song by Floyd Jones.It reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart and number sixteen on the Billboard Hot 100. With his knowledge of Eastern music, Wilson,the leader of the group, used a tambura drone to give the song a hypnotic effect and a psychedelic edge. The song features Wilson as the lead singer and harmonica player.

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