On the Road Again  Canned Heat
| "On the Route Again" | ||||
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| Unmarried by Canned Heat | ||||
| from the album Boogie with Canned Oestrus | ||||
| B-side | "Boogie Music" | |||
| Released | April 24, 1968 (1968-04-24) | |||
| Recorded | September vi, 1967 | |||
| Studio | Liberty, Los Angeles | |||
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| Label | Liberty | |||
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| Producer(s) | Cal Carter | |||
| Canned Oestrus singles chronology | ||||
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| "On The Route Again" (Remastered 2005) on YouTube | ||||
"On the Route Once more" is a song recorded past the American blues-rock grouping Canned Rut in 1967. A driving blues-rock boogie,[two] it was adapted from earlier blues songs and includes mid-1960s psychedelic stone elements. Different most of Canned Heat's songs from the period which were sung past Bob Hite, second guitarist and harmonica role player Alan Wilson provides the distinctive falsetto vocal. "On the Road Once again" first appeared on their second album, Boogie with Canned Rut, in January 1968; when an edited version was released as a single in April 1968, "On the Route Again" became Canned Oestrus'due south beginning record chart striking and one of their best-known songs.
Earlier songs [edit]
With his tape company's encouragement, Chicago blues musician Floyd Jones recorded a vocal titled "On the Route Once more" in 1953.[3] It was a remake of his successful 1951 vocal "Dark Road".[iv] Both songs are based on Mississippi Delta bluesman Tommy Johnson's 1928 song "Big Road Blues"[v] (Canned Heat took their name from Johnson's 1928 song "Canned Heat Dejection"[half-dozen]). Johnson's lyrics include: "Well I ain't goin' down that big road by myself ... If I don't acquit you lot 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 young, when I was quite young ...
Said Lord take mercy ooo, on my wicked son
And in "On the Road Again" he added
Whoaa I had to travel, whoaa in the rain and snow in the pelting and snowfall
My infant had quit me ooo (2×)
Have no identify to get
Both songs share a "hypnotic one-chord drone piece"-arrangement that one-time Floyd Jones musical partner Howlin' Wolf used for his songs "Crying at Daybreak" and the related "Smokestack Lightning".[vii] [viii]
Recording and limerick [edit]
"On the Road Again" was among the starting time songs Canned Heat recorded as demos in Apr 1967 at the RCA Studios in Chicago[ix] with original drummer Frank Melt. At over seven minutes in length, it has the basic elements of the later album version, but is two minutes longer with more harmonica and guitar soloing.[b]
During the recording for their second album, Canned Estrus recorded "On the Road Over again" 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 more" and "Dark Road" and added some lines of his own:
Well I'm so tired of cryin' just I'thousand out on the road over again, I'one thousand on the road again (two×)
I ain't got no woman merely to phone call my special friend
For the instrumental accompaniment, Canned Heat uses a "basic Due east/G/A blues chord design"[10] or "one-chord boogie riff" adapted from John Lee Hooker'southward 1949 hit "Boogie Chillen'".[11] Expanding on Jones' hypnotic drone, Wilson used an Eastern string instrument called a tambura to give the vocal a psychedelic ambience. Although Bob Hite was the group's primary vocalist, "On the Route" 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 again by Canned Heat on "Fried Hockey Boogie", an eleven-minute boogie by Larry Taylor which showcases the band'south musicality with a series of virtuoso solo performances past members.
Personnel [edit]
- Alan Wilson – vocal, harmonica, electric guitar, tambura
- Henry Vestine – electrical guitar
- Larry Taylor – bass guitar
- Adolfo de la Parra – drums
Releases and charts [edit]
"On the Road Once again" is included on Canned Heat's 2d anthology, Boogie with Canned Rut, released January 21, 1968, past Liberty Records. Afterwards receiving strong response from airplay on American "underground" FM radio, Liberty issued the vocal as a single on April 24, 1968.[13] To make the song more Superlative-40 AM radio-friendly, Liberty edited it from the original length of 4:55 to a three:33 unmarried version. It became Canned Heat'south first unmarried to appear in the tape charts.[10] [eastward]
| Chart (1968–1969) | Height position |
|---|---|
| Australia Go-Set up Top 40[xv] | nine |
| Belgium (Ultratop l Flemish region)[16] | v |
| Canada RPM Height Singles[17] | 8 |
| France (SNEP)[18] | seven |
| Republic of ireland (Irish Singles Chart)[19] | 14 |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top xl)[twenty] | 5 |
| Netherlands (Unmarried Superlative 100)[21] | 3 |
| Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[22] | 3 |
| U.M. (Official Singles Nautical chart)[23] | eight |
| U.South. (Billboard Hot 100)[24] | xvi |
| West Germany (Official German Charts)[25] | thirteen |
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 Again" appears on several Canned Oestrus compilation albums, including Let'due south Work Together: The All-time of Canned Heat (1989) and Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat (1994). Also, information technology is featured on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders 1974 film Alice in the Cities.
Influence [edit]
Although songs inspired by John Lee Hooker'southward "Detroit-era boogie"[two] had been recorded over the years by a variety of blues musicians, Canned Heat'southward "On the Road Again" popularized the guitar-boogie or E/Thou/A riff in the rock world.[8] Every bit a effect, "it's been a standard stone and roll pattern ever since".[8] Canned Heat used information technology often every bit the starting point for several of their extended jam songs, including the 40 infinitesimal alive opus "Refried Boogie (Part I & Ii)" from their late 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 'n Estrus, information technology had come full circumvolve.[26]
Notes [edit]
Footnotes
- ^ a b "On the Route Again, Canned Heat: This song... is psychedelic blues-stone that benefits from studio overdubbing technology."[1]
- ^ Bob Hite prefaces the recording with "OK ... light and greasy, don't let it go downward".[ix]
- ^ One writer described Wilson's vocal way every bit "reminiscent of Skip James at his nigh ectoplasmic".[12]
- ^ Wilson'due south harmonica solo has a note that is not playable without an overblow; he re-tuned his harmonica's six pigsty up a half stride.
- ^ Canned Oestrus's starting time unmarried, "Rollin' and Tumblin'", appeared in Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles nautical chart at number 115 in July 1967.[xiv]
- ^ St. Louis Jimmy Oden was a role-possessor of J.O.B. Records, the label that issued Floyd Jones' singles.
Citations
- ^ Evans 2005, p. 180.
- ^ a b Gioia 2008, pp. 262–263.
- ^ J.O.B. Records 1013
- ^ J.O.B. 1001
- ^ Victor Records 21409
- ^ Koda 1996, p. 142.
- ^ a b Rowe 1991, p. two.
- ^ a b c Palmer 1981, p. 231.
- ^ a b Russo 1994, p. five.
- ^ a b c Greenwald, Matthew. "Canned Heat: On the Road Again – Song review". AllMusic . Retrieved November 20, 2013.
- ^ Palmer 1981, p. 244.
- ^ Murray 2002, p. 382.
- ^ Russo 1994, p. 9.
- ^ Russo 1994, p. 21.
- ^ "On the Route Once more in Australian Nautical chart". Poparchives.com.au. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
- ^ "Canned Heat – On the Road Once more" (in Dutch). Ultratop fifty.
- ^ "On the road again in Canadian Top Singles Chart". Library and Athenaeum Canada. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
- ^ "On the road again in French Chart" (in French). Dominic DURAND / InfoDisc. July 17, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2013. You lot have to employ the index at the summit of the page and search "Canned Oestrus"
- ^ "On the route over again in Irish Chart". IRMA. Retrieved July 17, 2013. 2nd result when searching "On the Road Again"
- ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Canned Rut" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
- ^ "Canned Rut – On the Road Again" (in Dutch). Single Elevation 100.
- ^ "Canned Heat – On the Route Again". Swiss Singles Nautical chart.
- ^ "Canned Estrus – Singles". Official Charts . Retrieved July 17, 2013.
- ^ Russo 1994, p. 22.
- ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Canned Heat – On The Road Again". GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved February 18, 2019. To see tiptop chart position, click "TITEL VON Canned Heat"
- ^ Murray 2002, p. 395.
References
- Evans, David (2005). The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues. Penguin. ISBN978-0-399-53072-ii.
- 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-iii.
- 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. ISBN0-14-006223-8.
- Rowe, Mike (1991). Blues Is Killing Me (Album notes). Various artists. Paula Records. PCD-xix.
- Russo, Greg (1994). Uncanned! The All-time of Canned Oestrus (CD compilation booklet). Canned Oestrus. EMI/Liberty. 7243 8 29165 2 nine.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road_Again_%28Canned_Heat_song%29
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