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I M on the Road Again

"On the Route Again"
On the Road Again45.jpg
Single past Canned Heat
from the album Boogie with Canned Oestrus
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(s) Cal Carter
Canned Heat singles chronology
"Evil Woman"
(1967) 		"On the Route Again"
(1968) 		"Going Upward the Country"
(1968)
Audio
"On The Road Once more" (Remastered 2005) on YouTube

"On the Route Over again" is a vocal recorded by the American dejection-stone group Canned Oestrus in 1967. A driving dejection-rock boogie,[2] information technology was adjusted from earlier blues songs and includes mid-1960s psychedelic stone elements. Different most of Canned Oestrus's songs from the menstruum which were sung past Bob Hite, second guitarist and harmonica player Alan Wilson provides the distinctive falsetto vocal. "On the Route Again" starting time appeared on their second album, Boogie with Canned Heat, in Jan 1968; when an edited version was released as a single in April 1968, "On the Route Again" became Canned Heat's first record nautical chart hit and i of their all-time-known songs.

Earlier songs [edit]

With his record company's encouragement, Chicago blues musician Floyd Jones recorded a song titled "On the Road Once again" in 1953.[3] It was a remake of his successful 1951 song "Dark Route".[4] Both songs are based on Mississippi Delta bluesman Tommy Johnson's 1928 song "Big Road Blues"[5] (Canned Heat took their name from Johnson's 1928 song "Canned Heat Blues"[6]). Johnson'south lyrics include: "Well I ain't goin' down that big road by myself ... If I don't carry you gonna carry somebody else". Jones "reshaped Tommy Johnson's verses into an eerie evocation of the Delta".[7] In "Night Road" he added:

Whoaa well my mother died and left me
Ohh when I was quite young, when I was quite immature ...
Said Lord have mercy ooo, on my wicked son

And in "On the Road Again" he added

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

Both songs share a "hypnotic one-chord drone piece"-arrangement that ane-fourth dimension Floyd Jones musical partner Howlin' Wolf used for his songs "Crying at Daybreak" and the related "Smokestack Lightning".[7] [8]

Recording and composition [edit]

"On the Road Again" was among the first songs Canned Oestrus recorded as demos in Apr 1967 at the RCA Studios in Chicago[9] with original drummer Frank Cook. At over seven minutes in length, it has the basic elements of the after anthology version, but is ii minutes longer with more harmonica and guitar soloing.[b]

During the recording for their second album, Canned Estrus recorded "On the Road Again" with new drummer Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra. The session took place September 6, 1967, at the Liberty Records studio in Los Angeles. Alan Wilson used verses from Floyd Jones' "On the Road Again" and "Dark Route" and added some lines of his ain:

Well I'm then tired of cryin' merely I'm out on the road again, I'grand on the route again (2×)
I ain't got no woman just to phone call my special friend

For the instrumental accessory, Canned Oestrus uses a "basic E/G/A blues chord pattern"[ten] or "one-chord boogie riff" adjusted from John Lee Hooker'south 1949 hit "Boogie Chillen'".[11] Expanding on Jones' hypnotic drone, Wilson used an Eastern cord instrument called a tambura to give the song a psychedelic ambient. Although Bob Hite was the grouping's chief vocalist, "On the Road" features Wilson as the singer, "utilizing his all-time Skip James-inspired falsetto vocal".[10] [c] Wilson also provides the harmonica parts.[d]

The basic riff is used again past Canned Estrus on "Fried Hockey Boogie", an eleven-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 – electric guitar
  • Larry Taylor – bass guitar
  • Adolfo de la Parra – drums

Releases and charts [edit]

"On the Road Over again" is included on Canned Heat'south 2nd album, Boogie with Canned Heat, released Jan 21, 1968, by Liberty Records. Subsequently receiving stiff response from airplay on American "underground" FM radio, Liberty issued the song equally a single on April 24, 1968.[13] To make the vocal 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 single to appear in the record charts.[10] [e]

Chart (1968–1969) Peak
position
Australia Become-Set up Summit 40[xv] 9
Belgium (Ultratop fifty Flemish region)[16] 5
Canada RPM Top Singles[17] 8
French republic (SNEP)[xviii] 7
Ireland (Irish Singles Nautical chart)[19] 14
Netherlands (Dutch Superlative 40)[twenty] 5
Netherlands (Single Meridian 100)[21] 3
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[22] 3
U.K. (Official Singles Nautical chart)[23] 8
U.S. (Billboard Hot 100)[24] 16
Due west Germany (Official German Charts)[25] 13

On the singles, Floyd Jones and Alan Wilson are listed as the composers, while the album credits Jim Oden/James Burke Oden (also known as St. Louis Jimmy Oden).[f] "On the Road Once again" appears on several Canned Heat compilation albums, including Let's Piece of work Together: The Best of Canned Heat (1989) and Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat (1994). Also, it is featured on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders 1974 film Alice in the Cities.

Influence [edit]

Although songs inspired by John Lee Hooker's "Detroit-era boogie"[ii] had been recorded over the years by a multifariousness of blues musicians, Canned Heat'southward "On the Road Over again" popularized the guitar-boogie or Due east/G/A riff in the stone globe.[eight] As a effect, "information technology's been a standard rock and roll pattern always since".[viii] Canned Heat used information technology often as the starting indicate for several of their extended jam songs, including the xl minute live opus "Refried Boogie (Office I & II)" 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 'n Estrus, it had come up full circle.[26]

Notes [edit]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b "On the Road Once again, Canned Oestrus: This song... is psychedelic blues-stone that benefits from studio overdubbing applied science."[i]
  2. ^ Bob Hite prefaces the recording with "OK ... low-cal and greasy, don't let it go down".[nine]
  3. ^ Ane author described Wilson'due south vocal manner as "reminiscent of Skip James at his most ectoplasmic".[12]
  4. ^ Wilson'south harmonica solo has a notation that is not playable without an overblow; he re-tuned his harmonica'due south 6 hole up a half step.
  5. ^ Canned Oestrus's outset unmarried, "Rollin' and Tumblin'", appeared in Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at number 115 in July 1967.[xiv]
  6. ^ St. Louis Jimmy Oden was a part-owner of J.O.B. Records, the characterization 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. 5.
  10. ^ a b c Greenwald, Matthew. "Canned Heat: On the Route Again – Song review". AllMusic . Retrieved November twenty, 2013.
  11. ^ Palmer 1981, p. 244.
  12. ^ Murray 2002, p. 382.
  13. ^ Russo 1994, p. ix.
  14. ^ Russo 1994, p. 21.
  15. ^ "On the Road Again in Australian Nautical chart". Poparchives.com.au. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  16. ^ "Canned Heat – On the Road Once more" (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 road over again in French Nautical chart" (in French). Dominic DURAND / InfoDisc. July 17, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2013. You lot have to utilize the alphabetize at the top of the page and search "Canned Heat"
  19. ^ "On the road once again in Irish gaelic Chart". IRMA. Retrieved July 17, 2013. 2nd event when searching "On the Road Once again"
  20. ^ "Nederlandse Meridian forty – Canned Heat" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  21. ^ "Canned Heat – On the Road Again" (in Dutch). Single Peak 100.
  22. ^ "Canned Heat – On the Road Again". Swiss Singles Nautical chart.
  23. ^ "Canned Estrus – Singles". Official Charts . Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  24. ^ Russo 1994, p. 22.
  25. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Canned Heat – On The Route Again". GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved February 18, 2019. To see peak chart position, click "TITEL VON Canned Rut"
  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 Dejection. Westward. W. Norton. ISBN978-0-393-33750-1.
  • Koda, Cub (1996). Erlewine, Michael (ed.). All Music Guide to the Blues. Miller Freeman Books. ISBN0-87930-424-3.
  • 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 Dejection. Penguin Books. ISBN0-14-006223-8.
  • Rowe, Mike (1991). Blues Is Killing Me (Album notes). Various artists. Paula Records. PCD-xix.
  • Russo, Greg (1994). Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat (CD compilation booklet). Canned Oestrus. EMI/Freedom. 7243 eight 29165 2 ix.

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