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On the Road Again (Canned Heat Song)

1968 single by Canned Heat

"On the Road Again"
On the Road Again45.jpg
Single past Canned Heat
from the album Boogie with Canned Rut
B-side "Boogie Music"
Released April 24, 1968 (1968-04-24)
Recorded September six, 1967
Studio Liberty, Los Angeles
Genre
  • Blues stone[a]
  • psychedelic stone[a]
Length
  • 4:55 (album version)
  • 3:33 (single version)
Label Liberty
Songwriter(s)
  • Floyd Jones
  • Alan Wilson
Producer(s) Cal Carter
Canned Heat singles chronology
"Evil Woman"
(1967) 		"On the Road Once more"
(1968) 		"Going Up the Country"
(1968)
Audio
"On The Route Over again" (Remastered 2005) on YouTube

"On the Road Again" is a song recorded by the American dejection-rock group Canned Estrus in 1967. A driving blues-stone boogie,[2] it was adapted from earlier blues songs and includes mid-1960s psychedelic rock elements. Dissimilar most of Canned Estrus'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 Route Again" first appeared on their second 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's showtime record chart hit and ane of their all-time-known songs.

Earlier songs [edit]

With his record company's encouragement, Chicago dejection musician Floyd Jones recorded a song titled "On the Road Again" in 1953.[iii] It was a remake of his successful 1951 song "Dark Route".[4] Both songs are based on Mississippi Delta bluesman Tommy Johnson's 1928 song "Big Road Dejection"[5] (Canned Estrus took their proper noun from Johnson's 1928 song "Canned Oestrus Blues"[half-dozen]). Johnson's lyrics include: "Well I ain't goin' down that big road by myself ... If I don't deport you lot gonna acquit somebody else". Jones "reshaped Tommy Johnson'southward verses into an eerie evocation of the Delta".[7] In "Night Road" he added:

Whoaa well my female parent 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 rain and snowfall in the rain and snowfall
My baby had quit me ooo (2×)
Have no identify to get

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

Recording and limerick [edit]

"On the Road Once again" was amongst the first songs Canned Heat recorded as demos in April 1967 at the RCA Studios in Chicago[ix] with original drummer Frank Cook. At over seven minutes in length, it has the basic elements of the afterward album version, but is 2 minutes longer with more than harmonica and guitar soloing.[b]

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

Well I'chiliad then tired of cryin' but I'thousand out on the route again, I'm on the road again (2×)
I ain't got no woman just to call my special friend

For the instrumental accompaniment, Canned Heat uses a "basic Eastward/One thousand/A blues chord pattern"[x] or "1-chord boogie riff" adapted from John Lee Hooker'south 1949 hit "Boogie Chillen'".[eleven] Expanding on Jones' hypnotic drone, Wilson used an Eastern string instrument called a tambura to requite the vocal a psychedelic ambience. Although Bob Hite was the group'south master vocaliser, "On the Road" features Wilson equally the singer, "utilizing his best Skip James-inspired falsetto vocal".[10] [c] Wilson also provides the harmonica parts.[d]

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

Personnel [edit]

  • Alan Wilson – vocal, harmonica, electric guitar, tambura
  • Henry Vestine – electric guitar
  • Larry Taylor – bass guitar
  • Adolfo de la Parra – drums

Releases and charts [edit]

"On the Road Once again" is included on Canned Heat'southward second anthology, Boogie with Canned Heat, released January 21, 1968, past Liberty Records. Later on receiving strong response from airplay on American "underground" FM radio, Liberty issued the song equally a single on April 24, 1968.[13] To make the vocal more than Top-40 AM radio-friendly, Liberty edited it from the original length of 4:55 to a 3:33 single version. Information technology became Canned Rut'due south start single to announced in the record charts.[ten] [due east]

Nautical chart (1968–1969) Summit
position
Australia Become-Prepare Pinnacle 40[15] ix
Kingdom of belgium (Ultratop 50 Flemish region)[16] 5
Canada RPM Top Singles[17] 8
France (SNEP)[18] vii
Ireland (Irish Singles Chart)[19] 14
Netherlands (Dutch Top xl)[20] 5
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[21] 3
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[22] 3
U.K. (Official Singles Chart)[23] 8
U.Due south. (Billboard Hot 100)[24] sixteen
W Germany (Official German Charts)[25] 13

On the singles, Floyd Jones and Alan Wilson are listed equally the composers, while the album credits Jim Oden/James Shush Oden (also known every bit St. Louis Jimmy Oden).[f] "On the Road Again" appears on several Canned Heat compilation albums, including Let's Work Together: The Best of Canned Estrus (1989) and Uncanned! The All-time of Canned Oestrus (1994). Also, it is featured on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders 1974 film 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 diversity of blues musicians, Canned Heat's "On the Road Once more" popularized the guitar-boogie or E/Grand/A riff in the stone world.[8] Equally a effect, "information technology's been a standard stone and roll pattern ever since".[8] Canned Oestrus used it often as the starting point for several of their extended jam songs, including the twoscore minute live opus "Refried Boogie (Part I & II)" from their tardily 1968 Living the Blues anthology. When Hooker recorded an updated version of "Boogie Chillen'", titled "Boogie Chillen No. 2", with the grouping in 1970 for Hooker 'due north Estrus, it had come full circle.[26]

Notes [edit]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b "On the Road Again, Canned Rut: This vocal... is psychedelic dejection-stone that benefits from studio overdubbing engineering science."[i]
  2. ^ Bob Hite prefaces the recording with "OK ... calorie-free and greasy, don't let it go down".[9]
  3. ^ One author described Wilson'southward song style as "reminiscent of Skip James at his nearly ectoplasmic".[12]
  4. ^ Wilson'southward harmonica solo has a note that is not playable without an overblow; he re-tuned his harmonica's 6 pigsty up a half step.
  5. ^ Canned Heat's first single, "Rollin' and Tumblin'", appeared in Billboard'south Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles nautical 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. v.
  10. ^ a b c Greenwald, Matthew. "Canned Estrus: On the Road Once more – Song review". AllMusic . Retrieved November twenty, 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 Again in Australian Chart". Poparchives.com.au. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  16. ^ "Canned Heat – On the Road Over again" (in Dutch). Ultratop fifty.
  17. ^ "On the road again in Canadian Top Singles Nautical chart". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  18. ^ "On the route again in French Nautical chart" (in French). Dominic DURAND / InfoDisc. July 17, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2013. Yous have to use the alphabetize at the top of the folio and search "Canned Estrus"
  19. ^ "On the road again in Irish gaelic Chart". IRMA. Retrieved July 17, 2013. 2nd result when searching "On the Road Again"
  20. ^ "Nederlandse Top xl – Canned Rut" (in Dutch). Dutch Top xl.
  21. ^ "Canned Heat – On the Road Once again" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  22. ^ "Canned Heat – 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 Route Once more". GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved February 18, 2019. To see peak chart position, click "TITEL VON Canned Rut"
  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. W. W. Norton. ISBN978-0-393-33750-ane.
  • 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 being: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century. Macmillan. ISBN978-0-312-27006-iii.
  • Palmer, Robert (1981). Deep Blues. Penguin Books. ISBN0-fourteen-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 Heat (CD compilation booklet). Canned Oestrus. EMI/Liberty. 7243 8 29165 2 9.

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