Saturday, September 14, 2024

Canned Heat - The Ties That Bind (1970-74 us, awesome blues rock, 2021 remaster)



Boogie-woogie blues rockers Canned Heat serve up a gyrating platter of previously-unleashed material, all recorded during three separate studio sessions. The album’s final three cuts (“Reefer Blues”, “You Tease Me” and “Something’s Gotta Go”) are the final recorded output from Heat founder/guitarist Alan Wilson, who committed suicide a few weeks after these studio sessions were made.

The album kicks off with the good-time party ambience of “Saturday Night Fish Fry”. Track four, “Drunk”, is a reeling ‘n’ rocking slab of slide guitar magic. Then there’s the rhythm and blues grinder, “Harry’s Open Pit and Bar B Que”.

Canned Heat fell by the wayside in the ’70s with the advent of disco and punk rock, but while those musical stylings have a tendency to come off as cliche and dated today, the Heat’s blistering rhythm and blues still sounds as fresh and new as the day it was canned.
by Yvette Cadeaux 

The previously unreleased Atlantic Records session from 1974. Negotiated out of their UA contract, Canned Heat moved to Atlantic where notable blues enthusiasts the Ertegun Brothers were persuaded to give the band another chance. The tapes were released back to the band after the label lost interest due to the impending disco craze, and the infamous Lester Bang’s eloquent 1973 Rolling Stone thrashing of “The New Age.” LP. Fito de la Parra released the album in 1997. 

An excellent boogie-blues record in a time that didn’t understand the music, The two unreleased Alan Wilson Tracks (Get Off My Back, Somethings Gotta Go) also appear on the newly released and available “The Boogie House Tapes Vol. 2”, and are a studio and live track that were some of his last recordings.
by Brett Lemke, Maximum Ink, 2004 
Tracks
1. Saturday Night Fish Fry (Ellis Walsh, Louis Jordan) - 2:54
2. 50,000 Boogies (Fito de la Parra) - 4:22
3. I Hear You Knocking (Joseph Delton Miller) - 2:20
4. Drunk (Jimmy Liggins) - 3:36
5. If It Ain't One Thing It's Another (Huey Pierce Smith) - 2:23
6. Harry's Open Pit and Bar B Que (Eugene P.Barnett, Steve David Nemeth) - 2:20
7. I Idolize You (Ike Turner) - 5:59
8. The Beggar  (Fito de la Parra) - 3:29
9. Choking To Death (Jerry Williams Jr., Stanley McKenny) - 3:34
10.Sad Ol' Mountain Sorrow (James Shane) - 4:56
11.Boogie 'n' ues (Fito de la Parra) - 2:49
12.Reefer Blues (Fito de la Parra) - 1:52
13.You Tease Me (Fito de la Parra) - 4:53
14.Something's Gotta Go (Fito de la Parra) - 5:57
Tracks 1-10 recorded 1974 Maiami FL
Track 11 recorded 1977 Santa Monica CA
Tracks 12-14 recorded during a rehearsal Hollywood CA 1970

Canned Heat
*Bob "The Bear" Hite - Lead Vocals, Harmonica 
*Henry "Sunflower" Vestine - Lead Guitar
*Fito de la Parra - Drums, Congas
*James Shane - Bottleneck Guitar, Vocals 
*Ed Beyer - Keyboards
*Harvey Mandel - Lead Guitar (Track 11)
*Richard Hite - Bass
*Chris Morgan - Rhythm Guitar (Track 11)
*Alan "Blind Ow!" Wilson - Guitar, Harmonica (Tracks 12-14)
*Tony de la Barreda - Bass (Tracks 12-14)

1967-73  Canned Heat - The Very Best Of
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