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Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat
Compilation album by
ReleasedMay 17, 1994
RecordedApril 17, 1967 – November 28, 1972
Length2:31:44
Label EMI
ProducerVarious
Canned Heat chronology
Let's Work Together: The Best of Canned Heat
(1989)
Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat
(1994)
Best of Hooker 'n' Heat
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings [2]

Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat is a two-disc CD set issued in 1994 that features various tracks from previous albums and some previously unreleased tracks. Highlights include an alternate, longer take of " On the Road Again," and the first release of " Let's Work Together" in stereo.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. " On the Road Again" (Alternate Take) (Floyd Jones, Alan Wilson) – 7:05 °
  2. "Nine Below Zero" ( Sonny Boy Williamson II) – 4:08 °
  3. "TV Mama" (Lou Willie Turner) – 6:21 °
  4. " Rollin' and Tumblin'" ( McKinley Morganfield) – 3:05
  5. "Bullfrog Blues" (Hite Jr., Wilson, Taylor, Vestine, Cook) – 2:17
  6. " Evil Is Going On" ( Willie Dixon) – 2:20
  7. " Goin' Down Slow" ( St. Louis Jimmy Oden) – 3:43
  8. " Dust My Broom" ( Robert Johnson, Elmore James) – 3:14
  9. " Help Me" (Sonny Boy Williamson II, R. Bass) – 3:07
  10. "The Story of My Life" (E. Jones) – 3:38
  11. " The Hunter" ( Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Al Jackson Jr., Booker T. Jones, Carl Wells) – 3:37 °
  12. "Whiskey and Wimmen'" ( John Lee Hooker) – 3:59 °
  13. " Shake, Rattle and Roll" ( Charles Calhoun) – 2:42 °
  14. " Mean Old World" ( Walter Jacobs) – 3:26 °
  15. " Fannie Mae" (Brown, Robinson, Lewis) – 3:06 °
  16. "Gotta Boogie (The World Boogie)" ( Canned Heat) – 9:55 °
  17. "My Crime" (Canned Heat) – 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) – 3:56
  3. "An Owl Song" (Alan Wilson) – 2:43
  4. " Terraplane Blues" (Robert Johnson) – 3:21 °
  5. "Christmas Blues (Alternate Take)" (De La Parra, Vestine, Wilson, Hite Jr.) – 7:34 ∞ °
  6. " Going Up the Country" (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) – 2:49
  10. " Big Fat (The Fat Man)" ( Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew, 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)" ( Wilbert Harrison) – 3:11
  17. " Wooly Bully" ( Domingo Samudio) – 2:30
  18. "Human Condition" (Canned Heat) – 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) – 3:15 ∞ ∞ ∞
  22. "Harley Davidson Blues" (James Shane) – 2:33
  23. "Rock & Roll Music" (Richard J. Hite Jr.) – 2:27

∞ featuring Dr. John
∞ ∞ Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker
∞ ∞ ∞ featuring Little Richard
° previously unreleased

References

  1. ^ "Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat - Canned Heat | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  2. ^ Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin. p. 103. ISBN  978-0-140-51384-4.