Much like Fleetwood Mac, and a host of other blues-rock bands from across the pond in the late-60s, Canned Heat played the blues appropriation game and happily made a career out of it, rather than branching out into other genres. On their debut, they sound like they look on the cover - rough, tumble, and smelly. The majority of tracks resemble garage demos and are credited to their old-time blues heroes from earlier in the 20th Century. The emphasis is on Henry "The Sunflower" Vestine's roaring guitar lines, and not much is heard from Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson as of yet, but still, this is the band in its' raw, unfiltered form.
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