Canned Heat: Friends In The Can - The Boogie House Tapes Vol. 1
Friends In The Can - The Boogie House Tapes Vol. 1
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- Label: Ruf, 2001-02
- Erscheinungstermin: 10.4.2003
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John Lee Hooker, Taj Mahal, Roy Rogers, Corey Stevens, Walter Trout, Larry Taylor, Henry Vestine, Harvey Mandel, Robert Lucas, Mike Finnigan
Friends In The Can - Their 36th album!
Always known for some great album covers and concepts, this CD comes packaged in an actual tin can. Canned Heat says: "You can take out the CD and have a great 'stash' can!" This album was two years in the making with a strong effort to find and write exceptional songs and play many of them "live" on the road before recording them... a concept that simply no longer exists with most recordings today!
At the end of 1999, this musical unit was formed to continue the Canned Heat legacy. It is generally thought that it usually takes at least two to three years for a band to reach their first musical peak. Now having played together for three years throughout the world, the camaraderie and musical growth has brought this band to a level worthy of recording.
This record also brings together a number of Canned Heat's "musical friends" from the past and present to join them in the creation of their first record of the 21st century. This musical collaboration celebrates 36 years of Canned Heat music and, also pays tribute to the band's major, musical influence... John Lee Hooker. The conceptual plan of Fito de la Parra and Skip Taylor, along with Fito's song selection and tremendous playing throughout the record, have helped make this Canned Heat's strongest album in many years.
The first track "Same Old Games" is written by a past alumnus of Canned Heat, James Shane. It captures the old feel of "Going Up The Country", but with the energy and sound of the new Canned Heat. It features Stanley Behrens' "Owl-like" vocals and great harmonica playing. Stanley also sings and plays flute on his own composition entitled "It Don't Matter". It includes the verse: "It wouldn't matter if they start a war, I don't care what they're fightin' for. Wouldn't matter if the world should burn, serves us right, cause we never learn!" A comment on futility and heartache brought about by lost love.
Dallas Hodge contributes two of his original compositions, "Bad Trouble" and "1, 2,3, Here We Go Again", both written during a period of social and financial turmoil, where Dallas sings and plays some of his best guitar work on record. Slide guitar master Roy Rogers is featured on "Bad Trouble". Dallas also sings his heart out on "Black Coffee", inspired by Percy Mayfield's rendition of this dark, funky, rhythm and blues oldie. Stanley Behrens adds all the horn parts. Greg Kage sings on his own new song entitled "That Fat Cat". Here he talks about society today where, even though you try to live your own life and guard your independence, you still need to be aware that we're all "living in the kingdom of the fat cat". "It's dog eat dog in a rat race world and the fat cat makes the rules" and "livin' with the law of the jungle can make a hound dog howl the blues... ah ouuu!".
Past Canned Heat front man, Walter Trout, sings and plays guitar with the Heat's backing on a song he wrote specifically for this record about not wanting to "go up the country anymore" and not wanting "to be on the road again", he just wants to "Get Home To You".
Blues rocker Corey Stevens sings and plays guitar on a self-penned song called "Getaway". It features the great harmony guitar licks of Corey and the Heat's John Paulus. It's a story about how great girls are when they're seventeen, tall, lean, sweet and "delicious in every way" and how, as time goes by, that all changes and all the singer wants to do is "Getaway!". Keyboard superstar Mike Finnigan is featured here on the Hammond B-3. There is also an edited, single version of this track as a bonus at the end of the CD.
There are two new versions of "Let's Work Together" on the CD. One is a bonus track that was specifically recorded for last year's commercial for Target Stores with Robert Lucas singing and playing slide guitar and a new version with Dallas Hodge singing and John Paulus on slide guitar. The rhythm section from the original recording in 1970 plays on the newly recorded versions with Fito de la Parra on drums, Larry Taylor on bass and Harvey Mandel on guitar. Producer of the original hit, Skip Taylor, is once again at the recording console.
My personal favorite track is "Never Get Out of These Blues Alive." An old song written by John Lee Hooker with a chilling vocal by blues great Taj Mahal. Over the music at the end of the track, John Lee Hooker talks about his time and travels throughout the years with Canned Heat... a true, blues classic!
Last is the song "Little Wheel", a never-heard-before track from "The Healer" sessions with John Lee Hooker singing and playing guitar backed by Canned Heat's Fito de la Parra, Larry Taylor and Henry Vestine. This is the last recording of Hooker and Heat together.
John Lee Hooker, Taj Mahal, Roy Rogers, Corey Stevens, Walter Trout, Larry Taylor, Henry Vestine, Harvey Mandel, Robert Lucas, Mike Finnigan
Friends In The Can - Their 36th album!
Always known for some great album covers and concepts, this CD comes packaged in an actual tin can. Canned Heat says: "You can take out the CD and have a great 'stash' can!" This album was two years in the making with a strong effort to find and write exceptional songs and play many of them "live" on the road before recording them... a concept that simply no longer exists with most recordings today!
At the end of 1999, this musical unit was formed to continue the Canned Heat legacy. It is generally thought that it usually takes at least two to three years for a band to reach their first musical peak. Now having played together for three years throughout the world, the camaraderie and musical growth has brought this band to a level worthy of recording.
This record also brings together a number of Canned Heat's "musical friends" from the past and present to join them in the creation of their first record of the 21st century. This musical collaboration celebrates 36 years of Canned Heat music and, also pays tribute to the band's major, musical influence... John Lee Hooker. The conceptual plan of Fito de la Parra and Skip Taylor, along with Fito's song selection and tremendous playing throughout the record, have helped make this Canned Heat's strongest album in many years.
The first track "Same Old Games" is written by a past alumnus of Canned Heat, James Shane. It captures the old feel of "Going Up The Country", but with the energy and sound of the new Canned Heat. It features Stanley Behrens' "Owl-like" vocals and great harmonica playing. Stanley also sings and plays flute on his own composition entitled "It Don't Matter". It includes the verse: "It wouldn't matter if they start a war, I don't care what they're fightin' for. Wouldn't matter if the world should burn, serves us right, cause we never learn!" A comment on futility and heartache brought about by lost love.
Dallas Hodge contributes two of his original compositions, "Bad Trouble" and "1, 2,3, Here We Go Again", both written during a period of social and financial turmoil, where Dallas sings and plays some of his best guitar work on record. Slide guitar master Roy Rogers is featured on "Bad Trouble". Dallas also sings his heart out on "Black Coffee", inspired by Percy Mayfield's rendition of this dark, funky, rhythm and blues oldie. Stanley Behrens adds all the horn parts. Greg Kage sings on his own new song entitled "That Fat Cat". Here he talks about society today where, even though you try to live your own life and guard your independence, you still need to be aware that we're all "living in the kingdom of the fat cat". "It's dog eat dog in a rat race world and the fat cat makes the rules" and "livin' with the law of the jungle can make a hound dog howl the blues... ah ouuu!".
Past Canned Heat front man, Walter Trout, sings and plays guitar with the Heat's backing on a song he wrote specifically for this record about not wanting to "go up the country anymore" and not wanting "to be on the road again", he just wants to "Get Home To You".
Blues rocker Corey Stevens sings and plays guitar on a self-penned song called "Getaway". It features the great harmony guitar licks of Corey and the Heat's John Paulus. It's a story about how great girls are when they're seventeen, tall, lean, sweet and "delicious in every way" and how, as time goes by, that all changes and all the singer wants to do is "Getaway!". Keyboard superstar Mike Finnigan is featured here on the Hammond B-3. There is also an edited, single version of this track as a bonus at the end of the CD.
There are two new versions of "Let's Work Together" on the CD. One is a bonus track that was specifically recorded for last year's commercial for Target Stores with Robert Lucas singing and playing slide guitar and a new version with Dallas Hodge singing and John Paulus on slide guitar. The rhythm section from the original recording in 1970 plays on the newly recorded versions with Fito de la Parra on drums, Larry Taylor on bass and Harvey Mandel on guitar. Producer of the original hit, Skip Taylor, is once again at the recording console.
My personal favorite track is "Never Get Out of These Blues Alive." An old song written by John Lee Hooker with a chilling vocal by blues great Taj Mahal. Over the music at the end of the track, John Lee Hooker talks about his time and travels throughout the years with Canned Heat... a true, blues classic!
Last is the song "Little Wheel", a never-heard-before track from "The Healer" sessions with John Lee Hooker singing and playing guitar backed by Canned Heat's Fito de la Parra, Larry Taylor and Henry Vestine. This is the last recording of Hooker and Heat together.
Rezensionen
K. Reckert in gaesteliste.de: "Friends In The Can" bietet auch eine der erlesensten Gästelisten, die man im Blues- rockbereich überhaupt jemals zu lesen und hören bekam: John Lee Hooker, Taj Mahal (!), Roy Rogers, Corey Stevens, Walter Trout, Larry Taylor, Henry Vestine (beide Letzt- genannten von der '67er Besetzung!), Promi Dose Harvey Mandel, Robert Lucas und Mike Finnigan. Und mit Inter- preten wie Walter Trout (guit, voc on "Home To You") oder Taj Mahal (voc on "Never Get Out On This Blues Alive") konnte ja auch letztlich einfach wenig schief gehen."- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Some Old Games
- 2 Bad Trouble
- 3 Black Coffee
- 4 Getaway
- 5 It Don't Matter
- 6 Let's Work Together
- 7 1, 2, 3, here we go again
- 8 That Fat Cat
- 9 Home To You
- 10 Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive
- 11 Little wheel
- 12 Let's Work Together
- 13 Getaway (Edited Single Version)
- 14 Keine Titelinformation
