Canned Heat vocalist Bob Hite is credited as a producer and is present with the band on the cover, though he did not sing on the album. His photo hangs on the wall behind the band on the album jacket. Hooker ‘n Heat, released 50 years ago today, was the final Canned Heat recording to feature harmonica player, guitarist, and songwriter Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson, who died the previous September between the album’s recording in May 1970 and its unveiling. Twenty years prior, he teamed up with the classic Canned Heat lineup for one of the great joint efforts in the blues. But that wasn’t Hooker’s first collaboration. ![]() Subsequently I heard some of his classic recordings and was able to understand why The Healer made sense. I don’t remember what made me buy it – I’d probably heard the outstanding title track with Santana – but I certainly wasn’t familiar with Hooker’s music (I plead being a teenager at the time). The first collaboration album I recall owning is John Lee Hooker’s 1989 album The Healer, which includes the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana, Charlie Musselwhite, and surviving members of Canned Heat, among others. ![]() Some have been quite commercially successful, while others seem rather unnecessary. ![]() The past thirty or so years have brought us so many collaboration albums, they’ve almost become passé. 1/15/71: John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat – Hooker ‘n Heat
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