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Canned Head: On the road again

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Artist: Canned Head
Title: On the road again
Released: 1989
Label: EMI Records
Time: 73:13
Producer(s): See Artists...
Appears with:
Category: Blues
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2000.09.30
Price in €: 6,61
Web address: www.cannedheatmusic.com

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[1] On The Road Again (Jones/Wilson) - 4:56
[2] Amphetamine Annie (Canned Heat) - 3:31
[3] My Crime (Canned Heat) - 3:58
[4] Time Was (Hite Jr./Vestine/Wilson/Taylor/De La Parra) - 3:23
[5] Goin´ Up The Country (Wilson) - 2:52
[6] Sugar Bee (Eddie Shuler) - 2:37
[7] Whiskey Headed Woman (Hite Jr.) - 2:52
[8] Bullfrog Blues (Hite Jr./Vestine/Wilson/Taylor/W.Dixon) - 2:18
[9] Let´s Work Together (G.Harrison) - 2:50
[10] World In A Jug (Canned Heat) - 3:52
[11] Fried Hockey Boogie (Taylor) - 11:08
[12] Rollin ´N´ Tumblin´ (Moragnfield) - 3:08
[13] I´m Her Man (A.Leigh) - 2:56
[14] Dust My Broom (Robert Johnson) - 3:16
[15] Parthenogenesis (Canned Heat) - 20:04 

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Larry Taylor - Bass
Henry Vestine - Guitar
Frank Cook - Drums
Bob Hite - Vocals
Alan Wilson - Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals

Jim Deery - Liner Notes

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


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 surving 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.

Cub Koda & Bruce Eder, All-Music Guide
 

 L y r i c s


On The Road Again

Well, I'm so tired of crying,
But I'm out on the road again.
I'm on the road again.
Well, I'm so tired of crying,
But I'm out on the road again.
I'm on the road again.
I ain't got no woman
Just to call my special friend.
You know the first time I traveled
Out in the rain and snow -
In the rain and snow,
You know the first time I traveled
Out in the rain and snow -
In the rain and snow,
I didn't have no payroll,
Not even no place to go.
And my dear mother left me
When I was quite young -
When I was quite young.
And my dear mother left me
When I was quite young -
When I was quite young.
She said "Lord, have mercy
On my wicked son."
Take a hint from me, mama,
Please don't you cry no more -
Don't you cry no more.
Take a hint from me, mama,
Please don't you cry no more -
Don't you cry no more.
'Cause it's soon one morning
Down the road I'm going.
But I aint going down
That long old lonesome road
All by myself.
But I aint going down
That long old lonesome road
All by myself.
I can't carry you, Baby,
Gonna carry somebody else.


Amphetamine Annie

This is a song with a message
I want you to heed my warning
I wanna tell you all a story
About this chick I know
They call her "Amphetamine Annie"
She's always shovelling snow
I sat her down and told her
I told her crystal clear
"I don't mind you getting high
But there's one thing you should fear"
"Your mind might think its flying, baby
On those little pills
But you ought to know it's dying, 'cause
Speed kills"
But Annie kept on speeding
Her health was getting poor
She saw things in the window
She heard things at the door
Her mind was like a grinding mill
Her lips were cracked and sore
Her skin was turning yellow
I just couldn't take it no more
She thought her mind was flying
On those little pills
She didn't it was going down fast, 'cause
Speed kills
Well I sat her down and told her
I told her one more time
"The whole wide human race has taken
Far too much methedrine"
She said "I don't care what a Limey says,
I've got to get it on
I'm not here to just see no man
Who come from across the pond
She wouldn't heed my warning
Lord, she wouldn't hear what I said
Now she's in the graveyard, and she's


My Crime

I went to Denver
Late last fall
I went to do my job
Yeah I didn't break any law
We worked a hippie place
Like many in our land
They couldn't bust the place
And so they got the band
`Cause the police in Denver
No, they don't want none of them long hairs hanging around
And that's the reason why
They want to tear Canned Heat's reputation down
You people in Denver
Will know what I mean
Yeah, the things I'm gonna tell ya
Yeah, you've all heard and seen
You remember when a cop on the beat
Used to rob and steal
Today they're gone, but the others get it on
So you know just how I feel
`Cause the police in Denver
Lord, they don't want none of them long hairs hanging around
And that's the reason why
They try to tear Canned Heat's reputation down
Yeah, they try to tear it down, boy
They ain't gonna do it though
Let me tell you this just one more time
Just one more thing I wanna tell ya
Before I go
It's a shame the Man in Denver
Has to lie and mistreat people so
Now six months ain't no sentence
One year ain't no time
When I hear from one to ten
It worries my troubled mind
`Cause the police in Denver
Lord, don't want no long hairs around
And that's the reason why
They try to tear Canned Heat's reputation down


Time Was

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Going Up The Country

I'm going up the country, babe don't you wanna go
I'm going up the country, babe don't you wanna go
I'm going to some place where I've never been before
I'm going, I'm going where the water tastes like wine
Well I'm going where the water tastes like wine
We can jump in the water, stay drunk all the time
I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away
I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away
All this fussing and fighting, man, you know I sure can't stay
Now baby, pack your leaving trunk, you know we've got to leave today
Just exactly where we're going I cannot say, but We might even leave
the USA 'Cause there's a brand new game that I want to play
No use of you running, or screaming and crying
'Cause you've got a home as long as I've got mine

Sugar Bee

Sugar Bee - Sugar Bee
Sugar Bee - Sugar Bee
Sugar Bee - Sugar Bee
Sugar Bee - Sugar Bee
Sugar Bee - Sugar Bee
Look what you done to me
When I told you, baby, on the day we wed
I told you, darling, don't you lose your head
Sugar Bee - Sugar Bee
Sugar Bee - Sugar Bee
Sugar Bee - Sugar Bee
Look what you done to me - alright
When I told you, babe, I'm gonna love you long
I'll never, never, never gonna do you wrong
Sugar Bee - Sugar Bee
Sugar Bee - Sugar Bee
Sugar Bee - Sugar Bee
Look what you done to me
Oh, notable good, darling


Whiskey Headed Woman

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Bullfrog Blues

Well, did you ever wake up,
With them bullfrogs on your mind?
Well, did you ever wake up,
With them bullfrogs on your mind?
You had to sit there laughin',
Laughin' just to keep from crying.
Well, did you ever wake up,
With that one woman on your mind,
Well, did you ever wake up,
With that one woman on your mind,
Sit there laughin',
Laughin' just to keep from crying.
My mother got em,
My father got em,
My brother got em,
My sister got em.

I woke up this morning,
My grandmother had them too,
Well, don't you know about that,
I got the bullfrog blues.
Bullfrog

My mother got em,
My father got em,
My brother got em,
My sister got em.

I woke up this morning,
My grandmother had them too,
Well, don't you know about that,
I got the bullfrog blues.


Let´s Work Together

Together we'll stand
Divided we'll fall
Come on now people
Let's get on the ball
And work together
Come on, come on
Let's work together
(Now now people)
Because together we will stand
Every boy, every girl and man
People, when things go wrong
As they sometimes will
And the road you travel
It stays all uphill
Let's work together
Come on, come on
Let's work together
You know together we will stand
Every boy, girl, woman and man
Oh well now, two or three minutes
Two or three hours
What does it matter now
In this life of ours
Let's work together
Come on, come on
Let's work together
(Now now people)
Because together we will stand
Every boy, every woman and man
Ahhh, come on now...
Ahhh, come on, let's work together...
Well now, make someone happy
Make someone smile
Let's all work together
And make life worthwhile
Let's work together
Come on, come on
Let's work together
(Now now people)
Because together we will stand
Every boy, girl, woman and man
Oh well now, come on you people
Walk hand in hand
Let's make this world of ours
A good place to stand
And work together
Come on, come on
Let's work together
(Now now people)
Because together we will stand
Every boy, girl, woman and man
Well now together we will stand
Every boy, girl, woman and man


World In A Jug

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Fried Hockey Boogie

Sorry, we have no Fried Hockey Boogie lyrics.


Rollin And Tumblin'

Well, I'm Rollin And Tumblin',
I Cried the Whole Night Long
Oh Well, I'm Rollin And Tumblin',
I Cried the Whole Night Long
Oh Well I Had The Feeling, Baby,
Something's Goin' Wrong

Oh Well I Really Love You Baby,
Come On And Say You'll Be Mine
Oh Well I Really Love You Baby,
Come On And Say You'll Be Mine
Well I You Don't Like My ,
Don't You Dig in my

Oh Well I Cried Last Night, Mama,
I Cried Zhe Night Before
Oh Well I Cried Last Night, Mama,
I Cried Zhe Night Before
Oh Well I Had The Feeling, Baby,I´m Her Man
You Don't Love Me No More

Well If The River Was Whiskey,
I Was A Divin' Duck
Well If The River Was Whiskey,
I Was A Divin' Duck
Well I'd Swim To The Bottom,
Baby I Would Not Come Up

Oh Well, I'm Rollin And Tumblin',
I Cried the Whole Night Long
Oh Well, I'm Rollin And Tumblin',
I Cried the Whole Night Long
Oh Well I Had The Feeling, Baby,
Something's Gonna Wrong


I´m Her Man

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Dust My Broom

I'm gonna get up in the morning
I believe I'll dust my broom.
I'm gonna get up in the morning
I believe I'll dust my broom.
Well I'm tired of tell you best,
I ain't got much time to lose

I'm gonna write a letter
Gonna send a special telgramm
I'm gonna write a letter
Gonna send a special telgramm
I'm gonna find my baby
You know talk on where I am

Well believe believe my time alone
And I believe believe my time alone
You'll gonna wake up in the morning
Find your god and gone...


Parthenogenesis

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