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1968 single by Canned Heat

"On the Route Again"
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Single by Canned Heat
from the album Boogie with Canned Rut
B-side "Boogie Music"
Released Apr 24, 1968 (1968-04-24)
Recorded September 6, 1967
Studio Liberty, Los Angeles
Genre
  • Blues rock[a]
  • psychedelic rock[a]
Length
  • 4:55 (album version)
  • 3:33 (single version)
Label Liberty
Songwriter(s)
  • Floyd Jones
  • Alan Wilson
Producer(southward) Cal Carter
Canned Rut singles chronology
"Evil Woman"
(1967) 		"On the Route Again"
(1968) 		"Going Up the Country"
(1968)
Audio
"On The Road Again" (Remastered 2005) on YouTube

"On the Road Once again" is a song recorded by the American blues-rock group Canned Heat in 1967. A driving blues-rock boogie,[2] information technology was adjusted from earlier blues songs and includes mid-1960s psychedelic rock elements. Different most of Canned Rut's songs from the period which were sung by Bob Hite, second guitarist and harmonica player Alan Wilson provides the distinctive falsetto song. "On the Road Again" first appeared on their second album, Boogie with Canned Estrus, in January 1968; when an edited version was released as a unmarried in April 1968, "On the Road Over again" became Canned Heat'due south showtime tape chart hit and one of their best-known songs.

Earlier songs [edit]

With his record visitor'south encouragement, Chicago blues musician Floyd Jones recorded a song titled "On the Road Once more" in 1953.[iii] It was a remake of his successful 1951 song "Nighttime Road".[4] Both songs are based on Mississippi Delta bluesman Tommy Johnson's 1928 song "Big Road Dejection"[v] (Canned Heat took their proper name from Johnson's 1928 song "Canned Heat Dejection"[6]). Johnson'south lyrics include: "Well I ain't goin' down that large route by myself ... If I don't carry you gonna deport somebody else". Jones "reshaped Tommy Johnson's verses into an eerie evocation of the Delta".[seven] In "Dark Route" he added:

Whoaa well my mother 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 Once again" he added

Whoaa I had to travel, whoaa in the rain and snow in the rain and snow
My babe had quit me ooo (2×)
Have no place to get

Both songs share a "hypnotic i-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".[7] [8]

Recording and limerick [edit]

"On the Route Again" was amidst the first songs Canned Heat recorded as demos in April 1967 at the RCA Studios in Chicago[9] with original drummer Frank Melt. At over vii minutes in length, it has the basic elements of the later album version, just is 2 minutes longer with more harmonica and guitar soloing.[b]

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

Well I'm and so tired of cryin' but I'm out on the road again, I'm on the road again (2×)
I ain't got no adult female just to call my special friend

For the instrumental accompaniment, Canned Heat uses a "bones E/G/A blues chord pattern"[10] or "one-chord boogie riff" adjusted from John Lee Hooker'southward 1949 striking "Boogie Chillen'".[11] Expanding on Jones' hypnotic drone, Wilson used an Eastern string musical instrument called a tambura to give the song a psychedelic ambient. Although Bob Hite was the grouping'south master vocalist, "On the Road" features Wilson every bit the singer, "utilizing his best Skip James-inspired falsetto vocal".[x] [c] Wilson likewise provides the harmonica parts.[d]

The basic riff is used once again by Canned Heat on "Fried Hockey Boogie", an xi-minute boogie past Larry Taylor which showcases the band's musicality with a serial of virtuoso solo performances by 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 Route Once again" is included on Canned Heat'southward second anthology, Boogie with Canned Heat, released Jan 21, 1968, by Liberty Records. After receiving strong response from airplay on American "surreptitious" FM radio, Liberty issued the song every bit a unmarried on April 24, 1968.[thirteen] To make the song more Top-40 AM radio-friendly, Liberty edited it from the original length of 4:55 to a 3:33 single version. It became Canned Heat's first unmarried to announced in the record charts.[ten] [e]

Chart (1968–1969) Peak
position
Australia Go-Prepare Top 40[15] 9
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[16] 5
Canada RPM Top Singles[17] 8
France (SNEP)[18] 7
Ireland (Irish Singles Chart)[xix] 14
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[20] 5
Netherlands (Single Pinnacle 100)[21] 3
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[22] 3
U.K. (Official Singles Chart)[23] 8
U.South. (Billboard Hot 100)[24] sixteen
West Deutschland (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 Burke Oden (also known as St. Louis Jimmy Oden).[f] "On the Road Over again" appears on several Canned Heat compilation albums, including Allow's Work Together: The Best of Canned Heat (1989) and Uncanned! The All-time 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'south "Detroit-era boogie"[2] had been recorded over the years past a diversity of blues musicians, Canned Heat'due south "On the Route Again" popularized the guitar-boogie or E/G/A riff in the rock world.[8] Every bit a result, "information technology's been a standard rock and ringlet design ever since".[8] Canned Heat used information technology frequently equally the starting point for several of their extended jam songs, including the forty infinitesimal live opus "Refried Boogie (Office I & 2)" from their late 1968 Living the Blues album. When Hooker recorded an updated version of "Boogie Chillen'", titled "Boogie Chillen No. 2", with the group in 1970 for Hooker 'north Heat, it had come full circumvolve.[26]

Notes [edit]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b "On the Road Again, Canned Oestrus: This vocal... is psychedelic blues-rock that benefits from studio overdubbing technology."[1]
  2. ^ Bob Hite prefaces the recording with "OK ... low-cal and greasy, don't let it go down".[9]
  3. ^ One author described Wilson's song style every bit "reminiscent of Skip James at his most ectoplasmic".[12]
  4. ^ Wilson's harmonica solo has a note that is not playable without an overblow; he re-tuned his harmonica'south six pigsty up a one-half step.
  5. ^ Canned Heat's starting time unmarried, "Rollin' and Tumblin'", appeared in Billboard'southward Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles nautical chart at number 115 in July 1967.[14]
  6. ^ St. Louis Jimmy Oden was a part-possessor 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 Heat: On the Road Again – Song review". AllMusic . Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  11. ^ Palmer 1981, p. 244.
  12. ^ Murray 2002, p. 382.
  13. ^ Russo 1994, p. nine.
  14. ^ Russo 1994, p. 21.
  15. ^ "On the Road Once again in Australian Chart". Poparchives.com.au. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  16. ^ "Canned Estrus – On the Road Again" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
  17. ^ "On the road again in Canadian Top Singles 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 utilize the index at the top of the folio and search "Canned Estrus"
  19. ^ "On the road again in Irish Chart". IRMA. Retrieved July 17, 2013. second result when searching "On the Road Again"
  20. ^ "Nederlandse Tiptop 40 – Canned Rut" (in Dutch). Dutch Elevation 40.
  21. ^ "Canned Rut – On the Road Again" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  22. ^ "Canned Oestrus – On the Road Again". Swiss Singles Chart.
  23. ^ "Canned Oestrus – Singles". Official Charts . Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  24. ^ Russo 1994, p. 22.
  25. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Canned Heat – On The Road Over again". GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved February 18, 2019. To encounter tiptop chart position, click "TITEL VON Canned Estrus"
  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. ISBN978-0-393-33750-1.
  • Koda, Cub (1996). Erlewine, Michael (ed.). All Music Guide to the Blues. Miller Freeman Books. ISBN0-87930-424-three.
  • 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-19.
  • Russo, Greg (1994). Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat (CD compilation booklet). Canned Heat. EMI/Liberty. 7243 viii 29165 ii 9.

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