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 t.v. 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 13 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!