Wilson performing at Woodstock.

Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson (July 4, 1943 – September 3, 1970) was the leader, singer, and primary composer in the American blues band Canned Heat. He played guitar and harmonica and wrote most of the songs for the band. Wilson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Topanga Canyon, California of a heroin overdose in an apparent suicide. He performed at two of the greatest concerts of the 1960s, the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and Woodstock in 1969. His unique high tenor vocals made him instantly recognizable among other vocalists of the era, and thus is clearly heard on the film (Woodstock, which chose Canned Heat's "Going Up the Country" as the unofficial theme tune to Woodstock). Image File history File links Blindowleee. ... Image File history File links Blindowleee. ... July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Blues music redirects here. ... Canned Heat album cover Canned Heat is a blues-rock/ boogie band that formed in Los Angeles in 1965. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Harmonica A harmonica is a free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ or mouth harp, Hobo Harp, French harp, tin sandwich, lickin stick, blues harp, simply harp, or Mississippi saxophone), having multiple, variably-tuned brass... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub of the Universe (The State House, according to Oliver Wendell Holmes, is the hub of the Solar System), Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution Location in Massachusetts Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... This article is about a town in Los Angeles County. ... It has been suggested that Califas be merged into this article or section. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... Poster promoting the festival The Monterey International Pop Music Festival took place from June 16 to June 18, 1967. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Woodstock may refer to: Woodstock Music and Art Festival, a 1969 U.S. rock festival which inspired a 1970 Warner Bros. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Woodstock is the name of the 1970 documentary film about the Woodstock rock festival, directed by Michael Wadleigh and edited by Martin Scorsese. ...

After Eddie 'Son' House''s 'rediscovery' in 1964, Alan Wilson taught him how to play again the songs House had recorded in 1930 and 1942 (which he meanwhile had forgotten). Son House, circa 1965 Eddie James House, Jr. ...

He used to sleep outside, so he could be closer to nature and often carried plant samples around with him in his pockets. He loved to read books on Botany and Ecology.

Wilson was a fanatical conservationist, and in the liner notes to Future Blues (Canned Heat album) a poem he wrote called 'Grim Harvest' was printed: Future Blues is a 1970 album by Canned Heat. ...

The redwoods of California are the tallest living things on earth, nearly the oldest, and among the most beautiful to boot. They dominated the woods of the northern hemi-sphere in the time of the dinosaurs, a time when no mammal, flower, or blade of grass had yet appeared on earth. The Ice Age nearly exterminated them - of the once vast redwood forest only a remnant was spared by the immense glaciers which covered most of Europe, Asia, and North America in the not-too-distant evolutionary past.

Walking through this forest is an experience unique on earth. Here the sun’s rays are intercepted three hundred feet and more above the ground and are broken into tiny shimmering beams which descend among the towering pillars to play, at length, on the forest floor. Fern and wildflower bathe in the soft glow of a thousand muted spotlights which flicker on and off as the trees’ upper boughs sway majestically in a gentle wind.

2,000,000 acres of virgin redwood forest greeted the white man’s civilization as he completed his sweep of North America. In the last 100 years 1,800,000 acres of these have been logged, and of the remaining 200,000 only 75,000 are presently safe from devastation in state and national parks. At a time when these parks campsites must be reserved months in advance, the remaining 125,000 acres are being “harvested” (as the lumber-men put it), for uses which other trees could fulfill.

At the current rate of “harvest,” these remaining acres will be cleared within the next ten years.”

- Alan C. Wilson, 1970

Alan Wilson Disography

• Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions, w/ Son House 1965
• Guitar Vol.4: The Great San Bernadino Birthday Party, w/ John Fahey 1966
• Vintage Heat Canned Heat 1966, Janus Records
• Canned Heat Canned Heat 1967, Liberty Records
• Fred Neil w/ Fred Neil 1967, Capitol Records
• Boogie with Canned Heat Canned Heat, 1968, Liberty Records
• Living the Blues Canned Heat, 1968, Liberty Records
• Woodstock w/ Canned Heat, 1969, Warner Bros. Records
• Hallelujah Canned Heat, 1969, Liberty Records
• Slim's Got His Thing Going On w/ Sunnyland Slim, 1969 World Pacific Records
• Cookbook: Their Greatest Hits Canned Heat, 1970
• Live at the Kaleidoscope 1969 Canned Heat, 1971, (Originally released as Live at Topanga Corral), Wand Records
• Future Blues Canned Heat, 1970, Liberty Records
• Live '70 Concert in Europe Canned Heat, 1970
• John The Revelator: The 1970 London Sessions w/ Son House, 1970, Vequel Records
• Hooker 'N' Heat Canned Heat w/ John Lee Hooker, 1971, Liberty Records
• Old Girlfriends and Other Horrible Memories w/ John Fahey, 1992, Takoma Records
• Other Canned Heat Complimations e.g. The Boogie Hosue Tapes Vol.I and II.

Boogie with Canned Heat is a 1968 album by Canned Heat. ... John Lee Hooker. ...

External links

• Alan Wilson site
• Alan Wilson tribute site
• Photos