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1968 unmarried by Canned Heat

"On the Road Over again"
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Single by Canned Estrus
from the album Boogie with Canned Heat
B-side "Boogie Music"
Released April 24, 1968 (1968-04-24)
Recorded September 6, 1967
Studio Liberty, Los Angeles
Genre
  • Blues rock[a]
  • psychedelic stone[a]
Length
  • four:55 (anthology version)
  • iii:33 (unmarried version)
Label Liberty
Songwriter(s)
  • Floyd Jones
  • Alan Wilson
Producer(s) Cal Carter
Canned Heat singles chronology
"Evil Adult female"
(1967) 		"On the Road Again"
(1968) 		"Going Up the Country"
(1968)
Sound
"On The Road Again" (Remastered 2005) on YouTube

"On the Road Again" is a song recorded past the American blues-stone grouping Canned Heat in 1967. A driving blues-rock boogie,[two] it was adapted from earlier dejection songs and includes mid-1960s psychedelic rock elements. Unlike most of Canned Rut's songs from the period which were sung by Bob Hite, 2d guitarist and harmonica player Alan Wilson provides the distinctive falsetto vocal. "On the Road Again" kickoff appeared on their 2d album, Boogie with Canned Heat, in January 1968; when an edited version was released as a single in April 1968, "On the Route Again" became Canned Heat'southward commencement record chart hit and one of their best-known songs.

Earlier songs [edit]

With his record company'southward encouragement, Chicago blues musician Floyd Jones recorded a vocal titled "On the Road Once more" in 1953.[3] It was a remake of his successful 1951 song "Dark Road".[4] Both songs are based on Mississippi Delta bluesman Tommy Johnson's 1928 song "Big Road Dejection"[five] (Canned Heat took their name from Johnson'due south 1928 vocal "Canned Rut Blues"[6]). Johnson's lyrics include: "Well I own't goin' down that big road by myself ... If I don't carry you lot gonna behave somebody else". Jones "reshaped Tommy Johnson'due south verses into an eerie evocation of the Delta".[7] In "Nighttime Road" he added:

Whoaa well my female parent died and left me
Ohh when I was quite immature, when I was quite immature ...
Said Lord accept mercy ooo, on my wicked son

And in "On the Road Once again" he added

Whoaa I had to travel, whoaa in the rain and snow in the rain and snow
My baby had quit me ooo (2×)
Take no identify to become

Both songs share a "hypnotic one-chord drone piece"-organisation that one-time Floyd Jones musical partner Howlin' Wolf used for his songs "Crying at Daybreak" and the related "Smokestack Lightning".[7] [8]

Recording and composition [edit]

"On the Road Again" was among the first songs Canned Rut recorded as demos in April 1967 at the RCA Studios in Chicago[9] with original drummer Frank Melt. At over seven minutes in length, it has the bones elements of the subsequently album version, but is two minutes longer with more than harmonica and guitar soloing.[b]

During the recording for their 2nd anthology, Canned Heat recorded "On the Road Once more" with new drummer Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra. The session took place September 6, 1967, at the Freedom Records studio in Los Angeles. Alan Wilson used verses from Floyd Jones' "On the Road Once again" and "Dark Road" and added some lines of his ain:

Well I'm so tired of cryin' but I'thou out on the road once more, I'1000 on the road over again (2×)
I ain't got no adult female only to call my special friend

For the instrumental accessory, Canned Heat uses a "basic East/G/A blues chord pattern"[10] or "one-chord boogie riff" adjusted from John Lee Hooker'due south 1949 hitting "Boogie Chillen'".[11] Expanding on Jones' hypnotic drone, Wilson used an Eastern string instrument chosen a tambura to give the song a psychedelic ambience. Although Bob Hite was the grouping's primary vocalist, "On the Route" features Wilson equally the singer, "utilizing his all-time Skip James-inspired falsetto vocal".[10] [c] Wilson also provides the harmonica parts.[d]

The basic riff is used again past Canned Heat on "Fried Hockey Boogie", an 11-minute boogie by Larry Taylor which showcases the band's musicality with a series of virtuoso solo performances by members.

Personnel [edit]

  • Alan Wilson – song, harmonica, electric 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 Oestrus, released January 21, 1968, past Liberty Records. After receiving stiff response from airplay on American "secret" FM radio, Freedom issued the vocal equally a single on April 24, 1968.[13] To make the song more Height-40 AM radio-friendly, Liberty edited it from the original length of iv:55 to a 3:33 unmarried version. It became Canned Heat'southward get-go unmarried to announced in the record charts.[10] [e]

Chart (1968–1969) Height
position
Commonwealth of australia Go-Set Top 40[xv] ix
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[xvi] five
Canada RPM Acme Singles[17] viii
France (SNEP)[18] vii
Ireland (Irish Singles Nautical chart)[19] 14
Netherlands (Dutch Peak twoscore)[20] 5
Netherlands (Unmarried Summit 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 Charts)[25] thirteen

On the singles, Floyd Jones and Alan Wilson are listed every bit the composers, while the album credits Jim Oden/James Burke Oden (likewise known equally St. Louis Jimmy Oden).[f] "On the Road Once more" appears on several Canned Rut compilation albums, including Let'southward Work Together: The Best of Canned Heat (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 by John Lee Hooker's "Detroit-era boogie"[2] had been recorded over the years by a variety of dejection musicians, Canned Heat's "On the Road Over again" popularized the guitar-boogie or Eastward/Yard/A riff in the rock world.[8] Equally a result, "it's been a standard rock and roll pattern always since".[eight] Canned Heat used it frequently as the starting point for several of their extended jam songs, including the 40 infinitesimal live opus "Refried Boogie (Function I & II)" from their late 1968 Living the Dejection anthology. When Hooker recorded an updated version of "Boogie Chillen'", titled "Boogie Chillen No. two", with the grouping in 1970 for Hooker 'n Oestrus, it had come up total circumvolve.[26]

Notes [edit]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b "On the Road Over again, Canned Oestrus: This song... is psychedelic dejection-stone that benefits from studio overdubbing engineering."[ane]
  2. ^ Bob Hite prefaces the recording with "OK ... light and greasy, don't let it go downwardly".[9]
  3. ^ I author described Wilson's song fashion as "reminiscent of Skip James at his virtually ectoplasmic".[12]
  4. ^ Wilson's harmonica solo has a notation that is non playable without an overblow; he re-tuned his harmonica's six hole upwards a one-half footstep.
  5. ^ Canned Heat's showtime single, "Rollin' and Tumblin'", appeared in Billboard's 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. ii.
  8. ^ a b c Palmer 1981, p. 231.
  9. ^ a b Russo 1994, p. 5.
  10. ^ a b c Greenwald, Matthew. "Canned Oestrus: On the Route Again – Song review". AllMusic . Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  11. ^ Palmer 1981, p. 244.
  12. ^ Murray 2002, p. 382.
  13. ^ Russo 1994, p. 9.
  14. ^ Russo 1994, p. 21.
  15. ^ "On the Road Once more in Australian Chart". Poparchives.com.au. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  16. ^ "Canned Heat – On the Road Again" (in Dutch). Ultratop l.
  17. ^ "On the road again in Canadian Pinnacle Singles Chart". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  18. ^ "On the route again in French Chart" (in French). Dominic DURAND / InfoDisc. July 17, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2013. You take to use the alphabetize at the acme of the page and search "Canned Oestrus"
  19. ^ "On the road once more in Irish gaelic Chart". IRMA. Retrieved July 17, 2013. 2nd result when searching "On the Road Again"
  20. ^ "Nederlandse Top forty – Canned Heat" (in Dutch). Dutch Top twoscore.
  21. ^ "Canned Estrus – On the Route Again" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  22. ^ "Canned Oestrus – On the Road Again". Swiss Singles Chart.
  23. ^ "Canned Heat – Singles". Official Charts . Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  24. ^ Russo 1994, p. 22.
  25. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Canned Heat – On The Road Once again". GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved February 18, 2019. To run across peak chart position, click "TITEL VON Canned Estrus"
  26. ^ Murray 2002, p. 395.

References

  • Evans, David (2005). The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Dejection. Penguin. ISBN978-0-399-53072-two.
  • Gioia, Ted (2008). Delta Blues. W. W. 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 Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century. Macmillan. ISBN978-0-312-27006-3.
  • Palmer, Robert (1981). Deep Blues. Penguin Books. ISBN0-14-006223-eight.
  • Rowe, Mike (1991). Blues Is Killing Me (Anthology notes). Various artists. Paula Records. PCD-xix.
  • Russo, Greg (1994). Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat (CD compilation booklet). Canned Heat. EMI/Freedom. 7243 eight 29165 two 9.

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