SEE LINKS BELOW TO WATCH ALAN AND CANNED HEAT IN ACTION:

"Let's Work Together" video mentioned earlier:
   • Video  

Live at Woodstock
   • Canned Heat - On the Road Again live ...  

Hooker n Heat - Whiskey and Wimmen
   • John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat - Whisk...  

Alan Wilson Harmonica Lesson:
   • Alan Wilson Harmonica Lesson (part 1 )  

Ahh, music in the late 60s. So many divergent paths, so many different sounds. Some bands went heavier, some went more complicated and some, well, they went back to basics. The blues explosion both in the United Kingdom and the United States spawned some amazing bands and musicians that often flew under the radar. One such band was a California outfit known as Canned Heat, and before you wonder, “Who?,” they’re the ones who made the classic, quintessentially 60s hippie anthem “Going Up The Country.” The distinctive and hypnotic vocal on that song was performed by another singular musician who left us way too soon, at that eerie age when we lost so many other musical titans, like Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison and Cobain. That singer was blues musician Alan Wilson, and he’s going to be our subject, next, on Forgotten Fretmasters