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1968 unmarried by Canned Heat

"On the Road Again"
On the Road Again45.jpg
Single by Canned Heat
from the anthology Boogie with Canned Estrus
B-side "Boogie Music"
Released April 24, 1968 (1968-04-24)
Recorded September six, 1967
Studio Liberty, Los Angeles
Genre
  • Blues stone[a]
  • psychedelic stone[a]
Length
  • 4:55 (album version)
  • 3:33 (single version)
Characterization Liberty
Songwriter(s)
  • Floyd Jones
  • Alan Wilson
Producer(south) Cal Carter
Canned Heat singles chronology
"Evil Woman"
(1967) 		"On the Road Over again"
(1968) 		"Going Up the Country"
(1968)
Audio
"On The Road Again" (Remastered 2005) on YouTube

"On the Route Again" is a song recorded by the American blues-stone group Canned Estrus in 1967. A driving blues-rock boogie,[2] it was adjusted from before blues songs and includes mid-1960s psychedelic rock elements. Unlike well-nigh of Canned Oestrus'southward songs from the flow which were sung by Bob Hite, 2d guitarist and harmonica role player Alan Wilson provides the distinctive falsetto vocal. "On the Road Again" first appeared on their 2nd album, Boogie with Canned Heat, in January 1968; when an edited version was released as a single in April 1968, "On the Road Over again" became Canned Rut's first record nautical chart hit and one of their best-known songs.

Earlier songs [edit]

With his record visitor'south encouragement, Chicago blues musician Floyd Jones recorded a vocal titled "On the Road Again" in 1953.[3] It was a remake of his successful 1951 song "Nighttime Road".[4] Both songs are based on Mississippi Delta bluesman Tommy Johnson's 1928 song "Big Route Blues"[5] (Canned Heat took their name from Johnson'southward 1928 song "Canned Heat Blues"[6]). Johnson's lyrics include: "Well I ain't goin' down that large road by myself ... If I don't carry you lot gonna carry somebody else". Jones "reshaped Tommy Johnson'due south verses into an eerie evocation of the Delta".[vii] In "Dark Road" he added:

Whoaa well my female parent died and left me
Ohh when I was quite young, when I was quite young ...
Said Lord have mercy ooo, on my wicked son

And in "On the Road Over again" he added

Whoaa I had to travel, whoaa in the rain and snow in the rain and snowfall
My baby had quit me ooo (2×)
Have no identify to become

Both songs share a "hypnotic one-chord drone piece"-arrangement that one-fourth dimension Floyd Jones musical partner Howlin' Wolf used for his songs "Crying at Daybreak" and the related "Smokestack Lightning".[7] [eight]

Recording and composition [edit]

"On the Road Again" was among the first songs Canned Estrus recorded as demos in Apr 1967 at the RCA Studios in Chicago[9] with original drummer Frank Cook. At over seven minutes in length, it has the basic elements of the later album version, simply is 2 minutes longer with more than harmonica and guitar soloing.[b]

During the recording for their 2nd album, Canned Estrus recorded "On the Road Over again" with new drummer Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra. The session took identify September 6, 1967, at the Liberty Records studio in Los Angeles. Alan Wilson used verses from Floyd Jones' "On the Road Again" and "Nighttime Road" and added some lines of his own:

Well I'g so tired of cryin' but I'grand out on the road once more, I'm on the road again (2×)
I ain't got no woman just to call my special friend

For the instrumental accessory, Canned Heat uses a "basic Due east/Yard/A blues chord pattern"[10] or "one-chord boogie riff" adapted from John Lee Hooker's 1949 hit "Boogie Chillen'".[11] Expanding on Jones' hypnotic drone, Wilson used an Eastern cord musical instrument called a tambura to give the song a psychedelic ambience. Although Bob Hite was the group's master vocalist, "On the Road" features Wilson as the vocalist, "utilizing his best Skip James-inspired falsetto vocal".[10] [c] Wilson also provides the harmonica parts.[d]

The basic riff is used once more past Canned Heat on "Fried Hockey Boogie", an eleven-minute boogie by Larry Taylor which showcases the band's musicality with a series of virtuoso solo performances by members.

Personnel [edit]

  • Alan Wilson – song, harmonica, electrical guitar, tambura
  • Henry Vestine – electric guitar
  • Larry Taylor – bass guitar
  • Adolfo de la Parra – drums

Releases and charts [edit]

"On the Road Again" is included on Canned Heat's second album, Boogie with Canned Heat, released Jan 21, 1968, past Liberty Records. After receiving strong response from airplay on American "underground" FM radio, Freedom issued the vocal as a single on April 24, 1968.[13] To brand the song more Tiptop-40 AM radio-friendly, Liberty edited it from the original length of four:55 to a three:33 single version. It became Canned Heat'south showtime unmarried to announced in the tape charts.[10] [due east]

Chart (1968–1969) Pinnacle
position
Australia Get-Set Top xl[fifteen] ix
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[16] 5
Canada RPM Top Singles[17] 8
France (SNEP)[xviii] 7
Ireland (Irish Singles Chart)[19] 14
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[xx] 5
Netherlands (Single Elevation 100)[21] 3
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[22] 3
U.G. (Official Singles Chart)[23] 8
U.S. (Billboard Hot 100)[24] 16
West Germany (Official German Charts)[25] 13

On the singles, Floyd Jones and Alan Wilson are listed equally the composers, while the album credits Jim Oden/James Burke Oden (also known as St. Louis Jimmy Oden).[f] "On the Road Again" appears on several Canned Oestrus compilation albums, including Let'southward Work Together: The All-time of Canned Heat (1989) and Uncanned! The Best of Canned Oestrus (1994). Likewise, it is featured on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders 1974 picture show Alice in the Cities.

Influence [edit]

Although songs inspired by John Lee Hooker's "Detroit-era boogie"[2] had been recorded over the years by a diversity of dejection musicians, Canned Rut'south "On the Road Over again" popularized the guitar-boogie or East/G/A riff in the rock globe.[viii] As a result, "information technology's been a standard stone and roll pattern always since".[eight] Canned Heat used it oftentimes equally the starting bespeak for several of their extended jam songs, including the twoscore infinitesimal live opus "Refried Boogie (Part I & Two)" from their late 1968 Living the Dejection album. When Hooker recorded an updated version of "Boogie Chillen'", titled "Boogie Chillen No. 2", with the group in 1970 for Hooker 'n Heat, it had come full circle.[26]

Notes [edit]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b "On the Road Once more, Canned Heat: This song... is psychedelic blues-rock that benefits from studio overdubbing technology."[ane]
  2. ^ Bob Hite prefaces the recording with "OK ... light and greasy, don't let it go downwards".[9]
  3. ^ I writer described Wilson'southward vocal style as "reminiscent of Skip James at his near ectoplasmic".[12]
  4. ^ Wilson's harmonica solo has a note that is not playable without an overblow; he re-tuned his harmonica's six hole upwards a half footstep.
  5. ^ Canned Oestrus's first unmarried, "Rollin' and Tumblin'", appeared in Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at number 115 in July 1967.[14]
  6. ^ St. Louis Jimmy Oden was a part-owner of J.O.B. Records, the characterization that issued Floyd Jones' singles.

Citations

  1. ^ Evans 2005, p. 180.
  2. ^ a b Gioia 2008, pp. 262–263.
  3. ^ J.O.B. Records 1013
  4. ^ J.O.B. 1001
  5. ^ Victor Records 21409
  6. ^ Koda 1996, p. 142.
  7. ^ a b Rowe 1991, p. 2.
  8. ^ a b c Palmer 1981, p. 231.
  9. ^ a b Russo 1994, p. 5.
  10. ^ a b c Greenwald, Matthew. "Canned Oestrus: On the Road Again – Vocal review". AllMusic . Retrieved November twenty, 2013.
  11. ^ Palmer 1981, p. 244.
  12. ^ Murray 2002, p. 382.
  13. ^ Russo 1994, p. nine.
  14. ^ Russo 1994, p. 21.
  15. ^ "On the Road Once again in Australian Chart". Poparchives.com.au. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  16. ^ "Canned Heat – On the Route Once again" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
  17. ^ "On the road over again in Canadian Height Singles Chart". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  18. ^ "On the road again in French Chart" (in French). Dominic DURAND / InfoDisc. July 17, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2013. You take to utilise the alphabetize at the top of the page and search "Canned Heat"
  19. ^ "On the road once more in Irish Chart". IRMA. Retrieved July 17, 2013. 2nd consequence when searching "On the Road Once more"
  20. ^ "Nederlandse Peak 40 – Canned Heat" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  21. ^ "Canned Heat – On the Road Once more" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  22. ^ "Canned Oestrus – On the Road Once again". Swiss Singles Nautical chart.
  23. ^ "Canned Heat – Singles". Official Charts . Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  24. ^ Russo 1994, p. 22.
  25. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Canned Heat – On The Route Again". GfK Amusement charts. Retrieved February 18, 2019. To come across peak chart position, click "TITEL VON Canned Rut"
  26. ^ Murray 2002, p. 395.

References

  • Evans, David (2005). The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues. Penguin. ISBN978-0-399-53072-2.
  • Gioia, Ted (2008). Delta Blues. W. W. Norton. ISBN978-0-393-33750-1.
  • Koda, Cub (1996). Erlewine, Michael (ed.). All Music Guide to the Blues. Miller Freeman Books. ISBN0-87930-424-3.
  • Murray, Charles Shaar (2002). Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century. Macmillan. ISBN978-0-312-27006-iii.
  • Palmer, Robert (1981). Deep Blues. Penguin Books. ISBN0-xiv-006223-8.
  • Rowe, Mike (1991). Blues Is Killing Me (Album notes). Various artists. Paula Records. PCD-nineteen.
  • Russo, Greg (1994). Uncanned! The All-time of Canned Heat (CD compilation booklet). Canned Estrus. EMI/Liberty. 7243 8 29165 2 9.

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