Canned Heat – Amphetamine Annie

Sunday, time for a classic.

"Boogie with Canned Heat" is the second album by the American rock band CANNED HEAT, released in 1968. Unlike their debut, it features mostly original material. It included the top 10 hit "On the Road Again," one of their best-known songs.

Today's tune "Amphetamine Annie", a warning about the dangers of amphetamine abuse, also received considerable airplay. "Fried Hockey Boogie" was the first example of one of CANNED HEATs boogies, or loose jams.

This is a song with a message. ("I don't care what a Limey says. I got to get it on! "). CANNED HEATs hit Going Up The Country doesn't represent their usual John Lee Hooker Boogie style. "Amphetamine Annie" was written by Adolfo De La Parra, Samuel Lawrence Taylor, Alan Wilson, Henry Vestine and Robert Jr. Hite.

CANNED HEAT is an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its interpretations of blues material and for its efforts to promote interest in this type of 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, generically called "canned heat" (from the original 1914 product name Sterno Canned Heat), After appearances at the Monterey and Woodstock festivals at the end of the 1960s, the band acquired worldwide fame with a lineup consisting of Hite (vocals), Wilson (guitar, harmonica and vocals), Henry Vestine and later Harvey Mandel (lead guitar), Larry Taylor (bass), and Adolfo de la Parra (drums).

Today's tune if filmed Live At Rockpalast, enjoy!



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