Canned Heat.

Mike is a guitar student of mine.
Mike works at E.M.I.
Mike can get up to six cds per month free of charge.

The other day proudly gave me a CD Worth Checking Out!

The very best of Canned Heat !

Now who remembers Canned Heat?

I certainly do!

Canned Heat is THE Woodstock band and their song "Going up The Country"
one of the band`s biggest hits became the "theme song" for the Movie.

"Future Blues" the album with the wired cover picture of them as astronauts,
placing the American Flag on the Moon kept me good company in my early teens.

I must have at least three of their albums back in Athens but this was my
beloved one featuring Harvey Mandel on lead guitar.

Harvey Mandel together with Canned Heat`s bass player
Larry Taylor play on the adventourous
John Mayall`s album titled "U.S.A Union"

What a great album that is!

The way Larry keeps the beat without a drummer and the guitar sounds
Harvey achieves on this recording made it instantly a classic and one of my
favourite Mayall albums.

But Canned Heat was and might still be one of the best Boogie Bands ever.