Canned Heat News

Magnolias, Athens' only piano bar, will awaken tonight with the fingertip mastery of Athens native, Jason Fuller.

Canned Heat was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 Canned Heat Blues, a song about an alcoholic who has desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "canned heat". On the Road Again - a classic Going Up The Country - PEACE! Let's Work Together - yes, yes Amphetamine ...

On Saturday the fourth annual Tommy Johnson Celebration will once again take place on the grounds of the Cooper's Down race track in Terry.

The Alcohol Drug Studies Club presented instructors Patricia Sanora, 22 years of service; Marion Price, 22 years of service; and Benjamin Salazar, alcohol & drug studies director with appreciation placards.

Concert films often work best when they're about one band. The Last Waltz and Stop Making Sense are great, because you can either like the artist or not, but it's about their moment, that moment, when they record the show they're doing.

Friday night at 6 On The Square in Oxford, blues music meets Celtic traditions as Ireland's Barry McCabe shares his acoustic folk-rock. McCabe has teamed with Dan Vlaspoel, former lead guitarist with Dutch band Laundromat .

Back in the 1960s, a group of white teenagers from Chicago ventured into the city's tough black neighborhoods to learn the blues.

Forty years ago this weekend, a 600-acre farm in New York state was the site of the biggest musical festival ever seen - before or since.

In the first instalment of his new music blog, Jon Savage looks into Going Up the Country, a song that caught the countercultural mood of 1969 with its yearning for a rural retreat Released right at the end of 1968, Canned Heat's Going Up the Country went top 20 in the US and the UK in early 1969.

From the blues chords of Ten Years After to the iconic skipping drum hits of Levon Helm to the heartfelt message of a Yasgur, the sound of August 1969 was back in style at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

The concert celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival turned out to be a pretty remarkable reflection of the audience of 15,000 that came to see it.

BETHEL, N.Y., Aug. 16 - Tie-dye and peace symbols were everywhere at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on Saturday, and many of the people wearing them were pointing at a grassy hillside and saying, "When I was here in 1969.

Fito de la Pirra, drummer from the blue-rock band Canned Heat, sat in the media tent at the 40th anniversary with media cameras flashing -- bassistLarry Taylor on his right, lead guitarist Harvey Mandel on his left.

More than 30 acts performed Aug. 15-18 at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969.

The young hippies who watched the sun come up with The Who 40 years ago this weekend are now eligible for early bird specials.

Two musicians who were there at Woodstock are guitarist Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane and Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra , drummer for Canned Heat.

And with the recent release of a new, 40th anniversary cut of the legendary documentary of the boomer generation's coming-of-age spectacle with an additional 2- 1/2 hours of previously unseen performances, including Creedence Clearwater Revival, Johnny Winter, the Grateful Dead and West's fledgling hard rock band, Mountain the veteran guitar ...

Two musicians who were there at Woodstock are guitarist Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane and Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra , drummer for Canned Heat.

Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and John Mellencamp will play Heritage Park in Simpsonville at 5:30 p.m. July 29.

L ike many of the cottonfield laborers, sharecroppers and poor itinerant black people of his time, Tommy Johnson led a particularly rough life.