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Canned Heat is an American blues rock band that was formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its efforts to promote interest in blues music and its original artists. It was launched
Canned Heat in 1970. L–R: Larry Taylor, Henry Vestine, Bob Hite, Alan Wilson, Adolfo de la Parra
Canned Heat performing in 1979
Canned Heat at the Liri Blues Festival, Italy, in 2000.
Dallas Hodge & Stanley Behrens of the later-era Canned Heat
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
Canned Heat
…1965. The group has been noted for its efforts to promote interest in blues music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat Blues", a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno…
Alan Wilson's Arlington High School senior portrait, 1961
Wilson performing with Canned Heat at the Kralingen Music Festival
Wilson's 1954 Les Paul Goldtop with an improved two-part tailpiece