Alan Wilson (musician)
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Alan Christie Wilson, nicknamed "Blind Owl", was an American musician, best known as the co-founder, leader, co-lead singer, and primary composer of the blues rock band Canned Heat. He sang and played
Alan Wilson's Arlington High School senior portrait, 1961
Wilson (second from right) with Canned Heat in 1970
Wilson performing with Canned Heat at the Kralingen Music Festival
Wilson's 1954 Les Paul Goldtop with an improved two-part tailpiece
Bob Hite
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Robert Ernest Hite, also known as "The Bear", was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer who was the co-lead vocalist of the blues rock band Canned Heat from 1965 until his death
Alan Wilson (musician)
…Kafi" in "Fear & Loathing at 4th & Butternut", although Wilson was not credited. In Los Angeles, Wilson met fellow blues enthusiast and record collector Bob "The Bear" Hite at a record store. Together they founded Canned Heat in 1965. The band's name was taken from Tommy Johnson's 1928 song "Canned Heat Blues", about an…
Hite in 1974