Heat (1995)

A hard-luck blues band of the '60s, Canned Heat was founded by blues historians and record collectors Alan Wilson and Bob Hite. They seemed to be on the right track and played all the right festivals (including Monterey and Woodstock, making it very prominently into the documentaries about both) but somehow never found a lasting audience.

Art Blakey and Jazz Messengers - Heat Wave (1977) {Meldac Japan MECJ-30010 rel 1995}
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Jazz / Hard Bop

These red hot live performances by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – recorded in 1977 in San Fransisco – are evidence that the hard-bop school of Blakey was alive and well in arguably the darkest time for the straight ahead jazz musicians. The "fusion" music was taking the attention – and audiences – away from this kind of music, and we had to wait a few more years before its resurgence and emergence of young lions such as Wynton and Branford Marsalis.

Too Slim and the Taildraggers is an American blues rock band formed in 1986 in Spokane, Washington, United States. To date, Too Slim and the Taildraggers have released 13 studio albums and five live albums. The Fortune Teller (2007), Free Your Mind (2009), Shiver (2011), Blue Heart (2013), and Blood Moon (2016) all charted in the Top 10 of the Billboard Top Blues Albums, peaking at numbers 9, 5,9, 3, and 6 respectively. The Inland Empire Blues Society named the band "Best Blues Band" for four consecutive years, from 1995-1998, while the albums Swamp Opera and Blues for EB were also named Best Albums. The Cascade Blues Association named them "Best Regional Band" for 11 consecutive years, 1995-1999. Washington State Blues Society awarded Too Slim and the Taildraggers the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. Shiver was nominated for a Blues Music Award by the Blues Foundation for Rock Blues Album of the year.

Apart from a stumble half-way through (on the insubstantial "It's Hot"), this is a solid, enjoyable example of the Heat's blues-boogie.

A hard-luck blues band of the '60s, Canned Heat was founded by blues historians and record collectors Alan Wilson and Bob Hite. They seemed to be on the right track and played all the right festivals (including Monterey and Woodstock, making it very prominently into the documentaries about both) but somehow never found a lasting audience…

Bert Jansch was 52 when this CD came out in 1995, and at that point, he was revered as an elder statesman of the British folk community (although the veteran singer/songwriter is actually Scottish, not English). Jansch's brooding, introspective, bluesy style of folk-rock had not grown stale over the years – When The Circus Comes To Town, in fact, is the work of an artist who was having no problem maintaining either his vitality or his charisma. …

Guitarist Zeno Roth is the younger brother of German master composer- guitarist Uli Jon Roth (ex "Scorpions", "Earthquake", Solo). Zeno much like his brother, is an extremely competent guitar player and composer only he separates himself through following a Hard Rock /AOR path rather than the neoclassical operatic style of his brother.