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Encyclopedia > On the Road Again (Canned Heat song)

"On the Road Again" is a song by the blues group Canned Heat released as a single in August 1968. It reached the top ten on the Top 40 popular music charts and appeared on their 1968 album Boogie with Canned Heat, as well as the 1969 compilation The Canned Heat Cookbook. The song was composed by Floyd Jones and Alan Wilson. Due to his knowledge of Eastern Music, Alan Wilson uses a drone, which gives the song a hypnotic effect, and gave the song a psychedelic edge. It features Wilson's excellent harmonica playing also. Blues music redirects here. ... Canned Heat album cover Canned Heat is a blues-rock/ boogie band that formed in Los Angeles in 1965. ... Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. ... Alan Blind Owl Wilson (July 4, 1943 – September 3, 1970) was the leader, singer, and primary composer in the American blues band Canned Heat. ... Drone can refer to many things: // In music A drone is a continuous note or chord. ... Hypnotic drugs are a class of drugs that induce sleep, used in the treatment of severe insomnia. ... The word psychedelic is a neologism coined from the Greek words for mind, ψυχη (psyche), and manifest, δηλειν (delein). ... Wikibooks has a manual, textbook or guide to this subject: Harmonica A harmonica is a free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ or mouth harp, French harp, tin sandwich, blues harp, simply harp, or Mississippi saxophone), having multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze...


An electro-rock cover version of the song by the French band Rockets appeared on their 1978 album On the Road Again. A similar version has been released in a 2006 single by the Belgian band Telex. Andy Prieboy covered the song on his 1990 album ...Upon My Wicked Son, and Katie Melua recorded it for her 2005 album Piece by Piece. In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... The Belgian pop group Telex was formed in 1978 by Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, as a kind of elaborate joke. ... Former morgue attendant Andy Prieboy replaced Stan Ridgway as the lead singer of Wall of Voodoo after Ridgway left the band in 1983. ... Ketevan Katie Melua (Georgian: ) (born September 16, 1984) is a British singer and musician, born in Georgia and raised in Northern Ireland and England from the age of 9. ... Piece by Piece is the second album by UK jazz and blues singer Katie Melua, released in 2005 (see 2005 in music). ...


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