Boogie with Canned Heat


Boogie with Canned Heat is the second studio album by American blues rock band Canned Heat. Released in 1968, it contains mostly original material, unlike their debut album. It was the band's most commercially successful album, reaching number 16 in the US and number 5 in the UK.
Boogie with Canned Heat includes the top 10 hit "On the Road Again", one of their best-known songs. "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 Heat's boogies, or loose jams. When released on CD in 2005, six tracks originally released on singles were included as bonus tracks.
In 2012, Boogie with Canned Heat was remastered and released on CD by Iconoclassics Records with the original ten tracks, plus six bonus tracks.

Reception

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album an "impressive selection," and praised the "in-concert favourite" "Fried Hockey Boogie". Rolling Stone wrote that "'An Owl Song' is perhaps Al Wilson's strongest vocal outing to date — his peculiarly high crooning mumble grooving along over a kicking, chugging rhythm section."

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Evil Woman" – 2:59
  2. "My Crime" – 3:57
  3. "On the Road Again" – 5:01
  4. "World in a Jug" – 3:29
  5. "Turpentine Moan" – 2:56
  6. "Whiskey Headed Woman No. 2" – 2:57

Side two

  1. "Amphetamine Annie" – 3:36
  2. "An Owl Song" – 2:43
  3. "Marie Laveau" – 5:18
  4. "Fried Hockey Boogie" – 11:07

Bonus tracks from 2005 CD release

  1. "On the Road Again" – 3:22
  2. "Boogie Music" – 2:46
  3. "Goin' Up the Country" – 2:52
  4. "One Kind Favor" – 4:55
  5. "Christmas Blues" – 2:36
  6. "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" – 2:49

Bonus tracks from 2012 CD release

  1. "On the Road Again"
  2. "Shake, Rattle and Roll"
  3. "Whiskey and Wimmen'"
  4. "Mean Old World"
  5. "The Hunter"
  6. "Fannie Mae"

Personnel

;Canned Heat
;Additional personnel
;Production