Goin' Up The Country was a release from the 1968 Canned Heat album titled Living The Blues. The track reached number 11 in the US charts and number 19 in the UK chart. It was sung by its writer, Alan Wilson, and featured a prominent flute part played by multi-instrumentalist Jim Horn. Canned Heat performed the song during their set at the Woodstock music festival in August 1969, and it has been described as the "unofficial anthem" of the festival.
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Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie band that formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson (1943 – 1970) and Bob Hite (1943 – 1981), who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 Canned Heat Blues, a song about an alcoholic who has desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "canned heat". After appearances at Monterey and Woodstock, at the end of the … read more
Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie band that formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the inte… read more
Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie band that formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original ar… read more