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1968 unmarried by Canned Heat

"On the Road Once again"
On the Road Again45.jpg
Unmarried by Canned Oestrus
from the album Boogie with Canned Heat
B-side "Boogie Music"
Released April 24, 1968 (1968-04-24)
Recorded September half-dozen, 1967
Studio Liberty, Los Angeles
Genre
  • Blues rock[a]
  • psychedelic rock[a]
Length
  • 4:55 (album version)
  • three:33 (single version)
Label Liberty
Songwriter(southward)
  • Floyd Jones
  • Alan Wilson
Producer(s) Cal Carter
Canned Heat singles chronology
"Evil Woman"
(1967) 		"On the Road Again"
(1968) 		"Going Upwardly the Land"
(1968)
Audio
"On The Road Over again" (Remastered 2005) on YouTube

"On the Road Over again" is a vocal recorded past the American blues-stone group Canned Heat in 1967. A driving blues-stone boogie,[2] information technology was adapted from before blues songs and includes mid-1960s psychedelic rock elements. Unlike most of Canned Heat's songs from the menstruation which were sung by Bob Hite, 2d guitarist and harmonica player Alan Wilson provides the distinctive falsetto vocal. "On the Route Again" first appeared on their second album, Boogie with Canned Oestrus, in January 1968; when an edited version was released as a unmarried in April 1968, "On the Road Again" became Canned Estrus'due south first tape chart striking and one of their best-known songs.

Earlier songs [edit]

With his record company's encouragement, Chicago blues musician Floyd Jones recorded a song titled "On the Route 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 vocal "Big Road Blues"[five] (Canned Estrus took their name from Johnson's 1928 vocal "Canned Heat Dejection"[6]). Johnson'due south lyrics include: "Well I ain't goin' downward that large route by myself ... If I don't carry you gonna carry somebody else". Jones "reshaped Tommy Johnson's verses into an eerie evocation of the Delta".[7] In "Dark Road" he added:

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

And in "On the Road Again" he added

Whoaa I had to travel, whoaa in the pelting and snowfall in the rain and snowfall
My babe had quit me ooo (2×)
Have no identify to go

Both songs share a "hypnotic one-chord drone slice"-arrangement that one-time Floyd Jones musical partner Howlin' Wolf used for his songs "Crying at Daybreak" and the related "Smokestack Lightning".[vii] [8]

Recording and limerick [edit]

"On the Route Again" was among the first songs Canned Oestrus recorded as demos in April 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 anthology version, but is two minutes longer with more than harmonica and guitar soloing.[b]

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

Well I'm so tired of cryin' but I'yard out on the road over again, I'thousand on the road again (2×)
I ain't got no woman only to call my special friend

For the instrumental accompaniment, Canned Estrus uses a "basic Eastward/Chiliad/A dejection chord pattern"[ten] or "one-chord boogie riff" adapted from John Lee Hooker'south 1949 striking "Boogie Chillen'".[eleven] Expanding on Jones' hypnotic drone, Wilson used an Eastern string instrument called a tambura to give the song a psychedelic ambience. Although Bob Hite was the group's main vocalist, "On the Road" features Wilson as the vocalist, "utilizing his best Skip James-inspired falsetto vocal".[10] [c] Wilson too provides the harmonica parts.[d]

The basic riff is used again 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 – vocal, harmonica, electrical guitar, tambura
  • Henry Vestine – electric guitar
  • Larry Taylor – bass guitar
  • Adolfo de la Parra – drums

Releases and charts [edit]

"On the Route Again" is included on Canned Heat's second album, Boogie with Canned Estrus, released January 21, 1968, past Liberty Records. After receiving strong response from airplay on American "underground" FM radio, Liberty issued the song as a single on April 24, 1968.[thirteen] To make the song more than Peak-40 AM radio-friendly, Liberty edited it from the original length of 4:55 to a three:33 single version. It became Canned Heat's first unmarried to appear in the record charts.[10] [e]

Chart (1968–1969) Summit
position
Commonwealth of australia Get-Prepare Height 40[15] 9
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[16] five
Canada RPM Pinnacle Singles[17] 8
French republic (SNEP)[18] 7
Ireland (Irish Singles Chart)[19] 14
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[20] 5
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[21] 3
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[22] 3
U.K. (Official Singles Chart)[23] 8
U.S. (Billboard Hot 100)[24] 16
West Germany (Official German language Charts)[25] 13

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

Influence [edit]

Although songs inspired past John Lee Hooker'southward "Detroit-era boogie"[ii] had been recorded over the years past a variety of blues musicians, Canned Heat's "On the Road Again" popularized the guitar-boogie or E/G/A riff in the rock world.[8] Equally a consequence, "it's been a standard rock and roll blueprint ever since".[viii] Canned Oestrus used it frequently as the starting point for several of their extended jam songs, including the 40 minute alive opus "Refried Boogie (Function I & Two)" from their late 1968 Living the Blues album. When Hooker recorded an updated version of "Boogie Chillen'", titled "Boogie Chillen No. 2", with the group in 1970 for Hooker 'north Heat, it had come full circumvolve.[26]

Notes [edit]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b "On the Road Again, Canned Heat: This song... is psychedelic dejection-rock that benefits from studio overdubbing technology."[1]
  2. ^ Bob Hite prefaces the recording with "OK ... light and greasy, don't let information technology become down".[9]
  3. ^ One author described Wilson'south vocal way equally "reminiscent of Skip James at his most ectoplasmic".[12]
  4. ^ Wilson's harmonica solo has a note that is not playable without an overblow; he re-tuned his harmonica's half dozen pigsty upward a half step.
  5. ^ Canned Rut'southward starting time single, "Rollin' and Tumblin'", appeared in Billboard'southward 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 label 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. five.
  10. ^ a b c Greenwald, Matthew. "Canned Heat: On the Road Again – Song review". AllMusic . Retrieved November xx, 2013.
  11. ^ Palmer 1981, p. 244.
  12. ^ Murray 2002, p. 382.
  13. ^ Russo 1994, p. 9.
  14. ^ Russo 1994, p. 21.
  15. ^ "On the Route Again in Australian Nautical chart". Poparchives.com.au. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  16. ^ "Canned Heat – On the Road Once more" (in Dutch). Ultratop fifty.
  17. ^ "On the road again in Canadian Top Singles Chart". Library and Athenaeum 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. Yous have to employ the index at the top of the page and search "Canned Oestrus"
  19. ^ "On the road over again in Irish Nautical chart". IRMA. Retrieved July 17, 2013. second result when searching "On the Route Again"
  20. ^ "Nederlandse Top xl – Canned Rut" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  21. ^ "Canned Oestrus – On the Road Again" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  22. ^ "Canned Heat – On the Route Again". Swiss Singles Chart.
  23. ^ "Canned Rut – Singles". Official Charts . Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  24. ^ Russo 1994, p. 22.
  25. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Canned Oestrus – On The Road Once again". GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved February xviii, 2019. To encounter peak nautical chart position, click "TITEL VON Canned Heat"
  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. Due west. Due west. 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 Human: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century. Macmillan. ISBN978-0-312-27006-3.
  • Palmer, Robert (1981). Deep Dejection. Penguin Books. ISBN0-14-006223-8.
  • Rowe, Mike (1991). Blues Is Killing Me (Album notes). Various artists. Paula Records. PCD-19.
  • Russo, Greg (1994). Uncanned! The Best of Canned Oestrus (CD compilation booklet). Canned Rut. EMI/Liberty. 7243 eight 29165 2 9.

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