Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat
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Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat is two disc CD set issued in 1994, features various tracks from previous albums and some previously unreleased tracks. Highlights include an alternate, longer take of "On the Road Again," and "Let's Work Together
Let's Work Together
"Let's Stick Together" or "Let's Work Together" as it was subsequently titled, is a blues song written by Wilbert Harrison, which was released in 1962...

" in stereo for the first time ever.

Disc one

  1. "On the Road Again
    On the Road Again (Canned Heat song)
    "On the Road Again," a song recorded by the American blues rock group Canned Heat, was released as a single in April 1968, and appeared on their 1968 album Boogie with Canned Heat as well as the 1969 compilation The Canned Heat Cookbook...

    " (Alternate Version) (Floyd Jones, Alan Wilson) – 7:05
  2. "Nine Below Zero" (Sonny Boy Williamson II
    Sonny Boy Williamson II
    Willie "Sonny Boy" Williamson was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, from Mississippi. He is acknowledged as one of the most charismatic and influential blues musicians, with considerable prowess on the harmonica and highly creative songwriting skills...

    ) – 4:08
  3. "TV Mama" (Lou Willie Turner) – 6:21
  4. "Rollin' and Tumblin'
    Rollin' and Tumblin'
    "Rollin' and Tumblin" is a blues song that has been recorded hundreds of times by various artists. Considered as a traditional, it has been recorded with different lyrics and titles...

    " (McKinley Morganfield) – 3:05
  5. "Bullfrog Blues" (Hite, Jr., Wilson, Taylor, Vestine, Cook) – 2:17
  6. "Evil Is Going On" (Willie Dixon
    Willie Dixon
    William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...

    ) – 2:20
  7. "Goin' Down Slow
    Goin' Down Slow
    "Goin' Down Slow" or "Going Down Slow" is a blues song written by St. Louis Jimmy Oden, originally released in 1941. Howlin' Wolf included the song on his 1962 Rocking Chair Album.The song alternates between sung and spoken passages...

    " (St. Louis Jimmy Oden
    St. Louis Jimmy Oden
    James Burke "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden was an American blues vocalist and songwriter.Born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, Oden sang and taught himself to play the piano in childhood. In his teens, he left home to go to St. Louis, Missouri where piano-based blues was prominent...

    ) – 3:43
  8. "Dust My Broom
    Dust My Broom
    "Dust My Broom" is a blues standard originally recorded as "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom"by Robert Johnson, the Mississippi Delta blues singer and guitarist, on November 23, 1936 in San Antonio, Texas. The song was originally released on 78 rpm format as Vocalion 03475, ARC 7-04-81 and Conqueror 8871...

    " (Robert Johnson, Elmore James
    Elmore James
    Elmore James was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and band leader. He was known as "the King of the Slide Guitar" and had a unique guitar style, noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice.-Biography:James was born Elmore Brooks in the old Richland community in...

    ) – 3:14
  9. "Help Me
    Help Me (song)
    "Help Me" is a blues standard first recorded by Sonny Boy Williamson II in 1963. The song, a mid-tempo twelve-bar blues, is credited to Williamson, Willie Dixon, and Ralph Bass and is based on the 1962 instrumental hit "Green Onions" by Booker T. and the MGs. "Help Me" became a hit in 1963 and...

    " (Sonny Boy Williamson II, R. Bass) – 3:07
  10. "The Story of My Life" (E. Jones) – 3:38
  11. "The Hunter
    The Hunter (Albert King song)
    "The Hunter" is a blues song first recorded by Albert King in 1967. The song has been recorded by various other performers, including Ike and Tina Turner, who had a 1969 hit with the song in the R&B and Pop music charts.-Original song:...

    " (Steve Cropper
    Steve Cropper
    Steve Cropper , also known as Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T...

    , Donald "Duck" Dunn, Al Jackson, Jr., Booker T. Jones
    Booker T. Jones
    Booker T. Jones is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. and the MGs. He has also worked in the studios with many well-known artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, earning him a Grammy Award for lifetime...

    , Carl Wells) – 3:37
  12. "Whiskey and Wimmen'" (John Lee Hooker
    John Lee Hooker
    John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...

    ) – 3:59
  13. "Shake, Rattle and Roll
    Shake, Rattle and Roll
    "Shake, Rattle and Roll" is a prototypical twelve bar blues-form rock and roll song, written in 1954 by Jesse Stone under his assumed songwriting name Charles E. Calhoun. It was originally recorded by Big Joe Turner, and most successfully by Bill Haley & His Comets...

    " (Charles Calhoun
    Charles Calhoun
    Charles Luther Calhoun was an American military enlisted man who served briefly in the United States Navy during World War II and then in the United States Coast Guard where he would rise to become the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard.-Biography:Charles Calhoun was born April...

    ) – 2:42
  14. "Mean Old World
    Mean Old World
    "Mean Old World" is a blues song recorded by T-Bone Walker in 1942. It has been described as "the first important blues recordings on the electric guitar"...

    " (Walter Jacobs) – 3:26
  15. "Fannie Mae" (Brown, Robinson, Lewis) – 3:06
  16. "Gotta Boogie (The World Boogie)" (Canned Heat
    Canned Heat
    Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists...

    ) – 9:55
  17. "My Crime" (Canned Heat
    Canned Heat
    Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists...

    ) – 3:57
  18. "On the Road Again" (Floyd Jones, Alan Wilson) – 4:59

Disc two

  1. "Evil Woman" (Larry Weiss) – 2:59
  2. "Amphetamine Annie" (Canned Heat
    Canned Heat
    Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists...

    ) – 3:56
  3. "An Owl Song" (Alan Wilson) – 2:43
  4. "Terraplane Blues
    Terraplane Blues
    "Terraplane Blues" is a blues song recorded in 1936 in San Antonio, Texas by bluesman Robert Johnson. "Terraplane Blues" was Johnson's first single and it became a moderate regional hit, selling 5,000 copies....

    " (Robert Johnson) – 3:21
  5. "Christmas Blues (alternate take)" (De La Parra, Vestine, Wilson, Hite, Jr.) – 7:34
  6. "Going Up the Country
    Going Up the Country
    "Going Up the Country" is a song performed by the American blues-rock group Canned Heat. It appeared on their album Living the Blues and was also released as a single, reaching #11 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, #19 on UK Singles Chart and number one in 25 other countries...

    " (Alan Wilson) – 2:50
  7. "Time Was" (Alan Wilson) – 3:36
  8. "Low Down (And High Up)" (Hite, Jr., Wilson, Vestine, Taylor, De La Parra) – 2:50
  9. "Same All Over" (Canned Heat
    Canned Heat
    Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists...

    ) – 2:49
  10. "Big Fat (The Fat Man)
    The Fat Man (song)
    "The Fat Man" is a rhythm and blues song co-written by Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew and recorded by Fats Domino. It is considered to be one of the first rock and roll records.-History:...

    " (Fats Domino
    Fats Domino
    Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino, Jr. is an American R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Creole was his first language....

    , Dave Bartholomew
    Dave Bartholomew
    Dave Bartholomew is a musician, band leader, composer and arranger, prominent in the music of New Orleans throughout the second half of the 20th century...

    , adapted by Robert Hite, Jr.) – 1:58
  11. "It's All Right" (John Lee Hooker) – 5:35
  12. "Poor Moon" (Alan Wilson) – 3:24
  13. "Sugar Bee" (Eddie Shuler) – 2:36
  14. "Shake It and Break It" (Alan Wilson) – 2:31
  15. "Future Blues" (Hite, Jr., Wilson, Mandel, Taylor, De La Parra) – 2:58
  16. "Let's Work Together (Let's Stick Together)
    Let's Work Together
    "Let's Stick Together" or "Let's Work Together" as it was subsequently titled, is a blues song written by Wilbert Harrison, which was released in 1962...

    " (Wilbert Harrison
    Wilbert Harrison
    Wilbert Harrison was an American rhythm and blues singer, pianist, guitarist and harmonica player.Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, Harrison had a Billboard #1 record in 1959 with the song "Kansas City". The song was written in 1952 and was one of the first credited collaborations...

    ) – 3:11
  17. "Wooly Bully
    Wooly Bully
    "Wooly Bully" is a popular song originally recorded by novelty rock 'n' roll band Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs in 1965. Based on a standard 12-bar blues progression, it was written by the band's leader, Domingo "Sam" Samudio. It was released as a single on the Memphis-based Pen label and...

    " (Domingo Samudio) – 2:30
  18. "Human Condition" (Canned Heat
    Canned Heat
    Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists...

    ) – 5:24
  19. "Long Way from L.A." (Jud Baker) – 3:04
  20. "Hill's Stomp" (Joel Scott Hill) – 3:01
  21. "Rockin' with the King" (Skip Taylor, Richard Wayne Penniman
    Little Richard
    Richard Wayne Penniman , known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and...

    ) – 3:15
  22. "Harley Davidson Blues" (James Shane) – 2:33
  23. "Rock & Roll Music" (Richard J. Hite, Jr.) – 2:27
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