My son ( age 36) said to me "I can`t get this song out of my head and I don`t even know the words!" He hummed a few notes and I said "Going Up the Country" by Canned Heat! I felt so knowledgeable (LOL). BTW, I`m 74, also.
@@barbarasteed3966 Barbara, so glad that you are a survivor. Whatever it was that you went through, at least you now have a pile of experience, and hopefully the wisdom that goes with it to pass on to others. Namaste.
@@vincentconti3633 In a pottery/art class in high school early 70's there was a record player, no cover, and a jumbled box of records some in covers others not, all coated with clay dust. Most were shit, but a few good ones mixed in were "Hooker &Heat", an early Johnny Winter disc, which I heard every day. Good times!
There certainly were a lot of things that were messed up in the 60's and 70's. Fortunately music was not. These songs are timeless. Having lived through that time, it can only be described as magical with so many talented musical artists.
@@garyschneider8829and Bob Bear Hite as well, relatively speaking. Him and his lady approached my sister in law and I, at my bank parking lot in the late 70’s. I was on crutches (but no cast, as I had a rod put through my femur), and his lady had recently gone through brain surgery (I believe is what she said), and they wanted to know about my situation. Had a lovely conversation and was invited to their place in Box Cyn, to listen to what Bear described as his extensive record collection. A few short years later, he had passed as well.🙏💜 The details of both Bob and Alan’s passing are heartbreakingly sad! Ty for mentioning Alan’s passing 🤘 I believe he and Bear started the band as a joke…but both were heavy blues aficionados. Boy, they’re most definitely feeling no pain in this one, rotfl! Love their playful spirit!🤘😂🍷 edited due to being asleep while typing
RIP the four members of Canned Heat Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson (July 4, 1943 - September 3, 1970), aged 27 Bob “The Bear” Hite (February 26, 1943 - April 5, 1981), aged 38 Henry “The Sunflower” Vestine (December 25, 1944 - October 20, 1997), aged 52 Larry “The Mole” Taylor (June 26, 1942 - August 19, 2019), aged 77 You will always be remembered as legends.
Oh, yes...There will never be another band like Canned Heat.They're music was absolutely great 👍 👌 There's much more great music out there by Canned Heat, too. Truly a great band 👏 👌 👍
Time Machine travels would be enjoyed with such great bands, music of our younger days..71 years young, still enjoy spinning an album of those years/ times. Bringing a smile when transported to excellent music & happenings 🎶🎶✌️
@@stillwatching3255 Yeah, that's why you're on here listening to "crap" music that sucks then going into the comment section to troll out of jealousy. Poor baby.
I slept on the beach near Big Sur on spring break in March 1970. Me and my college buddy, Bernie met a bunch of free spirits and joined them for a once in a lifetime experience. Woke up to a whale blowing and breaching just a few yards offshore. Skinny dipped. Rinsed off in a little waterfall. I thought I was in heaven.
Great version of the Henry Thomas original blues song, please give the original a listen its pretty fantastic especially since it was recorded in 1928, with an unbelievable clean and clear sound for its time.
😢Every time this song played at Okie Joe's in Albuquerque, a friend of a guy I knew would just get up quick, wherever we were, whatever we were doing, and even whoever we might be with. It just was our thing, and dance. I will always remember that song and good times. I wonder what happened to him, and if he remembers our song....was in graduate school then. He was a 5th year business major.
What a great track and what an amazing voice. They dont make music like this anymore. Where's that damn time travel machine so I can live my youth in this era. Outstanding
Awesome songs. Canned Heat was so far ahead of their time. They would be billionaires today. ( Certainly more deserving than some of these current so called entertainers)
I'm goin I'm goin where the water tastes like wine, I'm goin where the water tastes like wine. If we jump in the water we can stay drunk all the time! great song. A timeless classic.
I was just 13 years old at 1968 and bought for my first earned money a transitor radio. This song brings me back to my room were I listen to radio Caroline and radio Nordsea. Such a good memories when I hear this song. Still got the orginal now playing in my Seeburg jukebox at 2021
FINALLY!!!!!! For the longest time, I would hear this song on TV and had no idea who sang it or what it was called... and it would stick in my head for days... sometimes weeks... :/
hey brother I can dig that I got about 450 of their songs lol on my iPad…on my phone. still groove to em!.. at 72! I think about the only one left now is Vito Dela para
Al Wilson and Bob Hite proved that record collectors can be great musicians. And have a relentlessly euphoric time in the process. Both are greatly missed.
@saint jack I know, I had it "untreated" to the age of 35, and I nearly went the same way numerous times. Depression is no joke, but joking about it like joking about most all the dark aspects of life, helps!
@@dexterious006 So true, however as many who were fragile, I think just as many were not but thought themselves invincible. It's a risky lifestyle, that's for sure.
It's beautiful to see how music captures a viewpoint of the times that once were. This song was out about 6 years before the end of the vietnam war...14 years of their life prior to this point (1969) has been our country at war with Vietnam.. so many influences both known and unknown...the cameras only give us a small glimpse into a past that truly is not that far away...but damn is time fast..the styles...the clothing...the music...the cameras...the vibes....the dope ass hair..RIP
ive always thought this classic as the best intro ever ,, this guys voice is stunning WOW wow , i still get so much pleasure hearing it agin it does things to my whole body long live the 60s era
* Going Up The Country (1968) Songwriters: ALAN WILSON Sung by Canned Heat *ㅡ Going Up The Country ㅡ* I'm going up the country, babe don't you wanna go I'm going to some place where I've never been before I'm going, I'm going where the water tastes like wine Well I'm going where the water tastes like wine We can jump in the water, stay drunk all the time I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away All this fussing and fighting, man, you know I sure can't stay Now baby, pack your leaving trunk, you know we've got to leave today Just exactly where we're going I cannot say, but We might even leave The USA 'Cause there's a brand new game that I want to play No use of you running, or screaming and crying 'Cause you've got a home as long as I've got mine
@@vincentjedlopez9979 it happens when you can't get laid because you are the supreme overlord of all nerds in the 60s. He was so amazingly intelligent and into nature it made him socially akward.
I've got 2 agree ,they were exceptional and 50+ years later I'm sticking canned heat on love them and looking at the age some of these lads died makes uz cry ! But there again their music keeps them alive ! It never ages great stuff doesn't !
Went into NYC and we found our way to The Dom in the village, where we were astonishingly pleased to enjoy three musical artists we had never heard of -- triple bill of Canned Heat, Tim Buckley and Joni Mitchell ..! Ticket price: $3.50 (in 1967 dollars)
My son ( age 36) said to me "I can`t get this song out of my head and I don`t even know the words!" He hummed a few notes and I said "Going Up the Country" by Canned Heat! I felt so knowledgeable (LOL). BTW, I`m 74, also.
I'm 74 years old now. Boy, do I miss those days... Great band!!!
Me to 74 glad I made it threw a mountain made of shit...
@@barbarasteed3966 Barbara, so glad that you are a survivor. Whatever it was that you went through, at least you now have a pile of experience, and hopefully the wisdom that goes with it to pass on to others. Namaste.
I'm 75 and I miss those days too!
Debieron ser grandiosos esos días.🤗🤗
❤
Alan had such a precious beautiful smile and soul may his spirit be forever. i love hearing him sing and play.
An Old Soul!!
Me too ☮️
An often forgotten member of the "27 Club." (He suffered horrible bouts of depression.) He just couldn't stand the pain anymore.
@@martysmith5260it’s been said that Alan had pills in his pants, when found. I don’t think he committed suicide.
and that is why I admire his intelligence and musicality, I as well suffer with depression I understand him
I was fortunate enough to grow up in the 60s and 70s there will never be another time like this
Don’t worry, the stealing of African American culture and music, to enrich the privileged continues to this very day.
The best days ever, greed spoilt it
The kids are growing up learning to play video games instead of musical instruments.
Lucky SOB lol
@@Festerbestertester6 nah c'mon music and humans will always go together
Completely unique voice. What a fabulous song, true classic.
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Tommy johnson imitation
All their stuff is awesome...blind hockey buggy...had an eight track that would slide around on the floor of my 57 Ford!!!
@@vincentconti3633 In a pottery/art class in high school early 70's there was a record player, no cover, and a jumbled box of records some in covers others not, all coated with clay dust. Most were shit, but a few good ones mixed in were "Hooker &Heat", an early Johnny Winter disc, which I heard every day. Good times!
@@Dr.Thirteen
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No music will ever compare to the music from the 60s and 70s... Sure miss those days of love, peace and good wholesome rock and roll...
This song is almost the same musically as the 1928 song this is based on. Henry Thomas - Bull Doze Blues
Esa misica es de los años 20.
Peace and Love, Baby!
You are absolutely right!
When this was played everyone got up and danced..crazy times and great to be growing up in the 60.s .🤞
I was in my 20's and will never forget the best music to keep life on a high note...It is forever ❣️
you are so lucky, i hhave to grow up with everyone tryna be wabbe gangster
Absolutely. I was one who got up and danced.
Damm right....I Waz there....Wish I could go Back. 😒🤗👽😎
Im with that band danced to be worn out oh yeah
I'm 64 now and I still get a smile on my face ever listening to that classic.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside....
Alan had that pitch imperfect voice...No one else was like him.
There certainly were a lot of things that were messed up in the 60's and 70's. Fortunately music was not. These songs are timeless. Having lived through that time, it can only be described as magical with so many talented musical artists.
It's just so sad that Alan Wilson ; aka Blind Owl left the earth that he loved , so early... RIP Blind Owl
Amen to that
I was only a 10 year old girl in 1970 but I agree ! Thankfully my brothers were all older and turned me on to all of the great music of the time.
@@garyschneider8829and Bob Bear Hite as well, relatively speaking. Him and his lady approached my sister in law and I, at my bank parking lot in the late 70’s. I was on crutches (but no cast, as I had a rod put through my femur), and his lady had recently gone through brain surgery (I believe is what she said), and they wanted to know about my situation. Had a lovely conversation and was invited to their place in Box Cyn, to listen to what Bear described as his extensive record collection. A few short years later, he had passed as well.🙏💜
The details of both Bob and Alan’s passing are heartbreakingly sad! Ty for mentioning Alan’s passing 🤘 I believe he and Bear started the band as a joke…but both were heavy blues aficionados.
Boy, they’re most definitely feeling no pain in this one, rotfl! Love their playful spirit!🤘😂🍷
edited due to being asleep while typing
Copy you brother . Peace
Love it you always have to get up and boogie when they play happy hippie music good old days carefree and wild❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
RIP the four members of Canned Heat
Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson (July 4, 1943 - September 3, 1970), aged 27
Bob “The Bear” Hite (February 26, 1943 - April 5, 1981), aged 38
Henry “The Sunflower” Vestine (December 25, 1944 - October 20, 1997), aged 52
Larry “The Mole” Taylor (June 26, 1942 - August 19, 2019), aged 77
You will always be remembered as legends.
And Frank cook
Only Fito is left now.
Oh, yes...There will never be another band like Canned Heat.They're music was absolutely great 👍 👌 There's much more great music out there by Canned Heat, too. Truly a great band 👏 👌 👍
I'm 127 years old now - how I miss the music of the late 1960's!
🤩 I'm impressed! A!
Time Machine travels would be enjoyed with such great bands, music of our younger days..71 years young, still enjoy spinning an album of those years/ times. Bringing a smile when transported to excellent music & happenings 🎶🎶✌️
The kids of today will never have music or anything as good as we had 🏁🇺🇸👍
This music sucks. Today’s music is way better. Everyone has different tastes and there is all kinds of music. You guys all listen to the same crap.
@@stillwatching3255 Yeah, that's why you're on here listening to "crap" music that sucks then going into the comment section to troll out of jealousy. Poor baby.
That video is hilarious and it's good to see Alan Wilson smiling.
Blind Owl - gone way too soon. What an underrated talent he was.
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay tooooooooooooooooo soooooon!!!!
27
right there.jpj
not underrated... when you listen to him..his voice and songs takes everyone to the hippie era.
@@juanr1956 not underrated? No one talks about Blind Owl unless his fans do - the man was an underrated musician and singer.
alan looks so happy here. Great to see him smile like this
Love this guy's voice. RIP brother
Canned Heat was in their own league. Always a pleasure to listen to ☺️
Larry they were the ultimate in greatness , my eyes lite up whenever i heard them,, they still do ha ha what a band
@@janeough45 Jane, I must know you,, if you are half the fan of Canned Heat that I am. Take care and have a wonderful life.
This was a totally off the grid tune, magical and a time capsule immemorial
18 then still loving it at 70!!!
Angelo State U. class of 73.....Rocky mt. high.......good luck, Mr.Soul.....
Man being born in 2004, really was an unfortunate experience
Sure takes me back to my 1970 adventures in Central California's Big Sur sleeping on the beach as a teen during spring break. Can't do that now!
My mom was a Big Sur beauty.
Can't do a lot of things now... covid not withstanding.
I slept on the beach near Big Sur on spring break in March 1970. Me and my college buddy, Bernie met a bunch of free spirits and joined them for a once in a lifetime experience. Woke up to a whale blowing and breaching just a few yards offshore. Skinny dipped. Rinsed off in a little waterfall. I thought I was in heaven.
ME TOO 1971!!
CROSS COUNTRY BY thumb
Can't do anything anymore. We love in a dictatorship
Great to see the owl smiling!
Roger that!
And the Bear playing, a recorder?!
Blind owl!
MY FAVORITE YEAR !!! AH WOODSTOCK !!!!!!
Love that smile ,"Blind Owl" Alan C. Wilson !!!!!
What a brilliant group; makes me wonder how or why we were so blessed to have this standard of music in our lives.
at least 100 artists and bands what great karma!
I was a kid when I heard this music in the early 70s...... I still love it.
Alan Christie Wilson - RIP what an amazing voice you had!! Keep on rocking man
Great version of the Henry Thomas original blues song, please give the original a listen its pretty fantastic especially since it was recorded in 1928, with an unbelievable clean and clear sound for its time.
The original was crap
@@thegreatdivide825 -like your opinion has any value, run along tadpole.
@@hammer44head Agreed!!
Thanks For The Idea!!
Love Awesome Music!!
Gypzzy from Virginia....
😢Every time this song played at Okie Joe's in Albuquerque, a friend of a guy I knew would just get up quick, wherever we were, whatever we were doing, and even whoever we might be with. It just was our thing, and dance. I will always remember that song and good times. I wonder what happened to him, and if he remembers our song....was in graduate school then. He was a 5th year business major.
Just like I remember seeing. Love Alan's smile. After seeing the Canned Heat for the first time Never been the same. Thank you. .
The Blind Owl was one of the greatest singer/bottleneckers who ever lived.
I learnt bottle neck blues and slide harp to there beat . Lol
Amen brother just legendary man that it takes me back.. Miss those days, glad we had them when we were young. ✌ and ❤
💯
Definitely an extremely underrated guitarist and musician for the role they played in blues revival
Great song. Alan Wilson (lead singer & guitarist) left us way too soon. RIP, Alan.
The symbol of Woodstock festival. My symbol. My music. MY LIFE. Thanks for all.
still great to this day. im 69 and still rocking to it.
Alan Wilson sound like he was a very nice person. Hope he is in a good place.
Blind Owl was a true talent, probably the greatest harmonica player of all time, and he was also a practical music historian.
Alan was a beautiful soul inside and out.
What a great track and what an amazing voice. They dont make music like this anymore. Where's that damn time travel machine so I can live my youth in this era. Outstanding
I love the bass line. My dad got this 45from a friend who was changing out the record in his bar's jukebox. I played it 100s of times.
Awesome songs. Canned Heat was so far ahead of their time. They would be billionaires today. ( Certainly more deserving than some of these current so called entertainers)
Very few ever made money playing the Blues
Actually, They ripped off a 40 year old blues number called Bulldoze Blues to make Goin Up the Country.
Thanks Tom, interesting! I didn't know that.
🙄
I'm goin I'm goin where the water tastes like wine, I'm goin where the water tastes like wine.
If we jump in the water we can stay drunk all the time! great song. A timeless classic.
Such good times
Yeah shows he was quite unhappy with in himself .
@@iggyguy88897 as are most artists
Yeah yeah yeah
It’s impossible to know afterwards, just how many young people drank wine and smoked weed as they’re going to everyday high back then
I was just 13 years old at 1968 and bought for my first earned money a transitor radio. This song brings me back to my room were I listen to radio Caroline and radio Nordsea. Such a good memories when I hear this song. Still got the orginal now playing in my Seeburg jukebox at 2021
My favorite! Alan looks so happy here! 🥰
Pure magic!
Love these guys!
✌👍
FINALLY!!!!!! For the longest time, I would hear this song on TV and had no idea who sang it or what it was called... and it would stick in my head for days... sometimes weeks... :/
Have you been discovered yet. Love that Michael Jackson picture you have posted too.
Rip Alan"l was 17"n love ur voice"best band in 60s God loves Canned Heat💞
Remake of a 1928 Blues song, "Bull Dozer Blues" by bluesman Henry Thomas. Canned Heat really honored his original.
@Genaro Capablanca yes I have listen to the original and admired the musical abilities of the times...
I watched the doc too 👍
Henry Thomas a True American Legend
I was a guest in Bob Hite's home in the late 70s. I got to see his incredible record and film collection. It's current whereabouts are unknown.
Very talented loved this Ɓand since th 60s 😊😊😊😊❤
I went to a weekend blues festival January 1999 and was fortunate enough to see this awesome band...I love their style of music ❤☮💯
hey brother I can dig that I got about 450 of their songs lol on my iPad…on my phone. still groove to em!.. at 72! I think about the only one left now is Vito Dela para
Would not change the 60's if I could. The BEST time of my life. Just wish the world could be more like that today.
Amen!
Al Wilson and Bob Hite proved that record collectors can be great musicians. And have a relentlessly euphoric time in the process. Both are greatly missed.
No respectable Hippy doesn't know and love this song !!!!
no respectable children of Hippies either
im a punk rocker and i love all of Wilsons songs. On the Road Again alt take is my favorite. Its a bit more uptempo.
That very talented nice young boy was too fragile to survive the rocking and the rolling of rock and roll.
@saint jack I know, I had it "untreated" to the age of 35, and I nearly went the same way numerous times. Depression is no joke, but joking about it like joking about most all the dark aspects of life, helps!
Judging by the casualty rate, a lot of people were.
@@dexterious006 So true, however as many who were fragile, I think just as many were not but thought themselves invincible. It's a risky lifestyle, that's for sure.
The fat bearded guy was handed smack by a fan and thinking it was coke he took it and died.
@@alexbowman7582 Yes I knew that - history has proven a thin line between rock music and death.
Ahhh. When music was great not like todays music
This music is shit. Another loser stuck in the 60’s. Today’s music is a thousand times better.
ikr? Tyler Childers is horrible! he is shit compared to this music.
This song is a complete, unoriginal, cover of a blues song, get real.
Fantastic vibe, Those were the days
Never gets old.
So glad to hear this again. I was 29 at that time and it’s easy to forget.
Always in my heart. RIP blind howl
It's beautiful to see how music captures a viewpoint of the times that once were. This song was out about 6 years before the end of the vietnam war...14 years of their life prior to this point (1969) has been our country at war with Vietnam.. so many influences both known and unknown...the cameras only give us a small glimpse into a past that truly is not that far away...but damn is time fast..the styles...the clothing...the music...the cameras...the vibes....the dope ass hair..RIP
This is absolute gold.Stay Gold Pony Boy ...you too Blind Owl.
I am almost 75, and have to go up country with Canned Heat ever' once in a while
Alan Wilson never looked so happy and healthy as he does in this old video.
He looked like such a nerd and then just blows us away...
He’s adorable.
Always liked Canned Heat. Wasn't the same after Alan passed away. What a tragedy.
good to see him happy here, he wasnt any longer at the end
ive always thought this classic as the best intro ever ,, this guys voice is stunning WOW wow , i still get so much pleasure hearing it agin it does things to my whole body long live the 60s era
that drum fill is perfect
Remember this song when I was much younger than I am now...brings back memories. Peace, love and all that...
This music is wonderful
Als wäre es gestern gewesen , Uschi Nerke kündigte an diesem kalten Wintertag Canned Heat an , mit Going up ... und alles war gut !
Allen Wilson one of the best blues musician he left us too soon he was 27 years old
I think it’s impossible to listen to this masterpiece and not be happy 😊 🤘
This was a smash hit right outta the gate! I absolutely loved Canned Heat. So sad with the early demise of Al Wilson.
Take me back! The dancing, we were all digging this tune!
Mr blind owl had a beautiful smile didn't he?
God he sure did such a shame so goddam young !!!
Didn't he just? Stand out smile.
@@oldstampsfan don't curse god, you devil-doll
@@JohnPMitten I have put my curse upon any and all gods now and for all time!
@@gabrielledvn ice to see him having a good time sadly missed but much appreciated
Fantastic video and song love it thanks to the music enhancement network for uploading this fantastic video and song thank you 🌹💋👍💋🌹💋👍👍👍👍
Owl was a young smart great guitarist he was depressed RIP My man 😎🙏🌙
Or disappointed intelligence
@wavygr : People afflicted with Clinical Depression often don’t take care of themselves as well as they should. It’s a Vicious Circle...
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Greatest time to grow up , sadly I had to leave for Paris Island SC that year .
😊 I love this band
* Going Up The Country (1968)
Songwriters: ALAN WILSON
Sung by Canned Heat
*ㅡ Going Up The Country ㅡ*
I'm going up the country, babe don't you wanna go
I'm going to some place where I've never been before
I'm going, I'm going where the water tastes like wine
Well I'm going where the water tastes like wine
We can jump in the water, stay drunk all the time
I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away
All this fussing and fighting, man, you know I sure can't stay
Now baby, pack your leaving trunk, you know we've got to leave today
Just exactly where we're going I cannot say, but We might even leave The USA
'Cause there's a brand new game that I want to play
No use of you running, or screaming and crying
'Cause you've got a home as long as I've got mine
That bass line. Perfect.
larry taylor one of the greats!
The Mole R.I.P.
I love that bass line it keeping the bottom solid
OUTSTANDING, grew up with The Heat & am glad I did!!!
I love you Blind Owl! 🥰
I love this song and this band , 60 the best music, saludos de Chile 🇨🇱✌🏻
Blind Owl was a born, reluctant front man.
And he’s high as shit here
Frankie Butler he died of an overdose...you should probably read up a bit before commenting on that which you are clueless about
@@TR-yi8up a suicide attempt probably, dude was rlly down in the dumps☹️
Vincent jed Lopez I’m not judging anyone except the dude telling me he didn’t ever do drugs, which is patently false
@@vincentjedlopez9979 it happens when you can't get laid because you are the supreme overlord of all nerds in the 60s. He was so amazingly intelligent and into nature it made him socially akward.
The last time I saw them was in a small club in upstate NY, shortly before Bear died, as usual they were great!
Love this tune, man!
Rock and Roll from the 1960’s was a Gift!!
I loved Canned Heat when I was a kid. Totally unique band.
I don’t care if it is 2021 , I’m living in the past !
Alan Wilson was Canned Heat !!
One of the great road trip songs!
That babe doing the intro was SO DURNED GORGEOUS!!! The best part of the show! What a cutie.
MORE LIGHT
This is Uschi Nerke
YOU THE BABE???
@@Michi181079 used to watch the beat club every Saturday
I've got 2 agree ,they were exceptional and 50+ years later I'm sticking canned heat on love them and looking at the age some of these lads died makes uz cry ! But there again their music keeps them alive ! It never ages great stuff doesn't !
Rip alan wilson🙏
Went into NYC and we found our way to The Dom in the village, where we were astonishingly pleased to enjoy three musical artists we had never heard of -- triple bill of Canned Heat, Tim Buckley and Joni Mitchell ..! Ticket price: $3.50 (in 1967 dollars)
Oh wow, if only you knew then, how great these artists were to become...