Canned Heat
- Type: Band/Group
- Country: United States
- Born: 1965 in Los Angeles, California, United States
- Active: 1965 - present
Biography
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".
Genres
Canned Heat Discography
- Canned Heat (1967) - Album - rated 3.47/5
- Boogie With Canned Heat (1968) - Album - rated 3.59/5
- Living the Blues (1968) - Album - rated 3.62/5
- Cookbook: The Best of Canned Heat (1969) - Compilation - rated 3.79/5
- Vintage (1969) - Album - rated 3.27/5
- Hallelujah (1969) - Album - rated 3.53/5
- Future Blues (1970) - Album - rated 3.9/5
- Historical Figures and Ancient Heads (1972) - Album - rated 3.43/5
- One More River to Cross (1973) - Album - rated 3.1/5
- Reheated (1988) - Album - rated 3.41/5
- The Boogie House Tapes 1967-1976 (2000) - Compilation - rated 3.7/5
- The Very Best of Canned Heat (2000) - Compilation - rated 3.7/5
Members
- Adolfo de la Parra - drums, vocals (1967–Present)
- Dale Spalding - vocals, guitar, harmonica (2008–Present)
- Rick Reed - bass (2019–Present)
- Jimmy Vivino - guitar, keyboards, vocals (2021–Present)
- Bob Hite - vocals, harmonica (1965–1981)
- Alan Wilson - guitar, harmonica, vocals (1965–1970)
- Frank Cook - drums (1965–1967)
- Henry Vestine - lead guitar (1965–1969; 1970–1974; 1980–1981; 1985–1988; 1992–1997)
- Larry Taylor - bass, guitar, vocals (1967–1970; 1978–1980; 1987–1992; 1996–1997; 2010–2019)
- Harvey Mandel - guitar (1969–1970; 1990–1992; 1996–1999; 2010–2014)
- Antonio de la Barreda - bass (1970–1972)
- Richard Hite - bass, guitar, vocals (1972–1977)
- James Shane - guitar, vocals (1972–1974)
- Ed Beyer - keyboards (1972–1974)
- James Thornbury - vocals, guitar, harmonica (1985–1995)
- Junior Watson - guitar, vocals (1988–1990; 1992–1997)
- Robert Lucas - vocals, guitar, harmonica (1995–2000; 2005–2008)
- Greg Kage - bass, vocals (1996–2010)