The iconic Canned Heat are an American blues and rock music treasure. Their importance and ever growing legion of worldwide fans is second to none. Their music has been an inspiration to many as their definitive catalog of albums and hit singles have stood the test of time.

Formed by fellow blues enthusiasts and record collectors Bob "The Bear" Hite Jr. and Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, they were one of the first rock bands to successfully translate the country blues of icons like Robert Johnson, Elmore James, John Lee Hooker and others to a whole new audience. While maintaining a rock, country blues and boogie groove, Canned Heat's sound became their trademark to the world.

Soon recruiting members like Larry Taylor on the bass, Henry Vestine on guitar and Fito de la Parra on drums, Canned Heat became the toast of the hippie generation in the sixties culminating with their headline appearance at the Woodstock festival in August 1969. Their music not only rocked, but it also foretold future concerns about the environment, the human condition, the economy, and the somber effects of wars.

For several years, Canned Heat along and their fellow bluesman John Lee Hooker had been playing shows together but never recorded an album with each other, that was until the folks at Liberty Records awarded their favorite boogie band the opportunity to cut a double album extravaganza with The Hook, aptly titled Hooker 'N Heat.

The session first two sides featured John Lee Hooker shouting the blues and tapping his feet, while cleverly placing microphones all over to the studio to catch every nuance and beat of this sorely missed blues master. Listen to the man do his thing on Messin' With The Hook, You Talk Too Much and Meet Me In The Bottom. In addition to Hooker, the late great Alan Wilson would also be featured on harp and piano for several of these amazingly raw solo tracks. As fate would have it, his gentle spirit soon departed Earth, making these The Blind Owl's final commercial recordings.

The remaining sides feature the full Canned Heat band and John Lee Hooker laying down some of the finest rock and blues boogie ever recorded. With the combination of Bob Hite manning the mixing board with Skip Taylor, Henry Vestine’s atomic lead guitar, Fito de la Parra's powerful boogie beat, the dynamic Alan Wilson on guitar and harmonica, Tony de la Barreda's bass and John Lee Hooker's tenacious vocal and guitar, there never was or will be a more incredible display of the boogie ever caught on wax. Just check out the groove of Let's Make It, the jump blues of the hit single Whisky And Wimmen' or the battle royal boogie of Boogie Chillen No. 2.

Celebrating their 45th year in the music business, Friday Music is very proud to announce the first time audiophile vinyl recording of Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker's all time classic Hooker 'N Heat.

Impeccably mastered from the original Liberty Records tapes by Joe Reagoso (Canned Heat/Johnny Winter/Jeff Beck) at Friday Music Studios and at Capitol Records with Ron McMaster, Hooker 'N Heat also begins the first release in the extensive and authorized Canned Heat/Friday Music 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl Series.

In addition to the hard rocking boogie music contained on this stunning release, to celebrate this limited edition album, we are also including the original gatefold cover which hasn't been issued for decades, plus a poly lined sleeve to protect each of your vinyl albums and a poly bag to keep your album cover in mint condition.

Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker... Hooker 'N Heat... A Blues Rock Masterpiece... First Time Audiophile Vinyl Release in North America... Only from your friends at Friday Music... "Don't Forget To Boogie!"

After Canned Heat's mind blowing and groundbreaking performance at Woodstock in 1969, the good folks at Liberty Records honored their rock and blues champions with an amazing LP overview of their most memorable and fan driven favorites titled Canned Heat Cookbook/The Best Of Canned Heat. This exciting collection features the brilliant and sorely missed lead vocals of Bob "The Bear" Hite, the vocals and classic guitar styling of the late great Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, the driving bass of Larry "The Mole" Taylor, the powerful drums of Fito de La Parra, plus the deeply missed guitar wizardry of Henry "Sunflower" Vestine.

This original mammoth collection had something for everybody as it culled the hits not only from the Liberty vaults, but deeper album tracks and underground radio classics from the late sixties period of the band's output. Therefore, a good majority of the smash singles and definitive Canned Heat tracks are included on this career compendium of songs which will forever stand the test of time.

Their most familiar songs like the Goin' Up The Country, On The Road Again and Bullfrog Blues are all featured. Plus even more Canned Heat anthems are included like the lengthy power jam Fried Hockey Boogie from Boogie With Canned Heat as well as the jump blues of Same All Over from Hallelujah.

The music of the legendary Canned Heat has made them one of the most loved bands of all time. Their concerts were history making events, their albums and songs were of superstar proportion, and the cosmic energy between each individual member made them one of the most revered classic rock bands of our time.

Friday Music is honored once again to be the torchbearer for some of the finest music ever recorded by Canned Heat, and it is with much honor to announce the first time audiophile vinyl release of Canned Heat Cookbook/The Best Of Canned Heat. As with our recent Hooker 'N' Heat 180 Gram release, this limited edition audiophile event was mastered impeccably from the original Liberty Records stereo tapes by Joe Reagoso and Ron McMaster. This wonderful album also now features all of the original album length versions of the original ten tracks, as well as the first time addition of their massive 1970 smash single Let's Work Together in stereophonic sound.

For this special limited edition release, we are also including the original gatefold artwork, which will truly enhance your hours of listening enjoyment, as it features a bevy of rare photos, as well as the original liner notes. And as always, we include a protective vinyl sleeve for the fine album cover and poly-lined sleeves for the audiophile vinyl disc to help keep your musical investment in mint shape.

Stay tuned to Friday Music as we will be releasing more Canned Heat classic recordings on 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl and Remastered Compact Discs in the very near future.

Canned Heat... Cookbook/The Best Of Canned Heat... Relive your favorite festival moments once again with these incredible songs from your favorite boogie band... now an audiophile vinyl reality... from your friends at Friday Music. As Bob Hite would say "Don't Forget To Boogie."

The Very Best Of Canned Heat Volume Two will make the blues enthusiasts and rock collectors happy for sure! Jam-packed with seventeen rarities, unreleased, and hard to find tunes, this collection is truly their best to date.

Canned Heat's leader Fito De La Parra personally hand-picked, annotated, and of course drummed on all of the tracks on this fantastic collection. Not only do you get a nice handful of tracks from the core band of Bob Hite, Alan Wilson, Larry Taylor, Adolfo De La Parra and Henry Vestine, but as Fito puts it "it also gives recognition to all the post-Wilson/Hite line-ups that I have had the pleasure to lead."

There are rare, import-only, and unreleased versions of tunes like Cherokee Dance, I Love My Baby plus important live archival material like Shake 'N Boogie from the 10th Woodstock Festival Anniversary Show (the only show taped with Hollywood Fats), and of course hits like Let's Work Together from the rare Turku Festival show in 1971. Bob Hite truly gives his best on these and his other contributions on this collection.

Later tracks like The Hucklebuck and Wait And See get equal star treatment from later versions of the Heat. Rare glimpses into their 40 year history are all here for the avid fan and new converts alike.

Completely re-stored remastering, as only Friday Music would have it, and wonderful photos never seen from the Canned Heat archives, this authorized collection is one of a kind and should be under the stocking this holiday for your favorite blues collector. As Bob Hite used to say "Don't Forget To Boogie."

Another Canned Heat Remasters Series from the vaults and archives of Fito De La Parra, Live At The Turku Rock Festival showcases this hard-working boogie band at their peak of their post-Woodstock fame. Led by the big man Bob Hite, The Heat cook up over an hour of rock, blues, country blues and hit songs from their catalog of albums.

Recorded in Finland in 1971, the band was touring to support their worldwide hit album Historical Figures And Ancient Heads. With a new line up featuring Joel Scott Hill, Antonio De La Bareda, along side founders Hite, De La Parra, and Henry Vestine, this band could do no wrong.

Check out the classic hit Let's Work Together with Hite's incredible vocals and Canned Heat's tight chemistry on stage. This band really was the consummate blues band of the era and it shows throughout this live performance.

A healthy dose of tracks from the aforementioned Historical Figures And Ancient Heads album are in order as Hill's Stomp, Long Way From L.A. and others are featured on this disc.

No Canned Heat album is complete without a boogie, and here you get Canned Heat Boogie. This lengthy jam is seeing its first release in North America, and this rarity is just one of the many fine tunes on this fine live recording.

Remastered from the original concert tapes, this authorized edition of Live At The Turku Rock Festival is just the right album for your blues, rock and boogie needs. Rock on!

Thanks to Fito De La Parra, the legacy of Canned Heat continues into their 40th year of making great blues and rock music. In its early stages as a jug blues formed by the late Bob Hite and the late Alan Wilson, these two record collector friends put together the rudiments of what would turn out to be the most famous boogie band of all time.

Henry "Sunflower" Vestine, Larry "The Mole" Taylor, and Fito De La Parra would soon follow and the hits recordings and non-stop concert tours would soon begin. With memorable shows at The Monterey Pop Festival and of course Woodstock, the band became a fixture in the ultra hippie music movement and sold millions of records worldwide.

After the deaths of Hite and Wilson, De La Parra picked up the foundation of the band and took the brand name of Canned Heat throughout many tours of the US, Europe, the Orient and Australia. With great cohorts like Larry Taylor and the late Henry Vestine, the band continued with these original members frequently playing pivotal roles in the various tours and albums over the last three decades.

As a continuing chapter in the recent Canned Heat association with Friday Music, 1994's Internal Combustion is finally back in print. Thanks to the archives of Canned Heat's Fito De La Parra, this collection honors and celebrates those years past with deep tracks like Remember Woodstock and John Lee Hooker Boogie.

Filled with rocking tracks like I Used To Be Bad and It's Hot, Canned Heat truly found it's stride with this platter. Late friends Henry Vestine and the great Ronnie Barron are featured players on these tracks and throughout this wonderful long lost CD.

Internal Combustion is back! Canned Heat celebrates its 40th year in the boogie business. As Bob Hite used to say "Don't Forget To Boogie." This Heat album and their other fine reissue Reheated are now both back in print and available on Friday Music. Enjoy!

Since 1966, Canned Heat has been in the business of the blues and rock music. With tons of road work and a whole new audience, thanks to movies and TV commercials, Friday Music is very proud to welcome this legendary band to our label. Fito De La Parra has specifically picked out some very fine releases from their archives and we begin our association with Canned Heat's 1989 boogie session entitled Reheated.

Reheated has thirteen incredible performances recorded "organically" as we like to describe it. Without the aid of millions of hours in the studio, gimmicks, digital enhancement, the Heat got back to the roots of the blues sound from the late 40s and mid 50s, and spiced it up with their trademark boogie sound.

Tracks like Hucklebuck, I Love To Rock & Roll and Take Me To The River have all gone on to become concert favorites over the years for this act. Featuring the impeccable line up of Larry Taylor, Fito De La Parra, Junior Watson and JT Thornbury, this band can do no wrong.

Tom Waits' Gunstreet Girl gets a fine work out in this set. With a nice building guitar structure from Junior Watson and the fine back beat of De La Parra along with Taylor's bass, this tune truly stands out on this project. Interesting note: Larry Taylor has been associated with Tom Waits for many years and has played on most of his pivotal releases and concert tours.

Fito went back and found the unreleased Nit Wit as a bonus for this album, which wasn't on the original Dali Records version from 1990. This lucky thirteenth track, along with the original twelve recordings from Reheated will have you going back for more of the Canned Heat sound for years. Reheated by Canned Heat. A splendid boogie time is guaranteed for all!