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Canned Heat: Revolution, London

Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 14 September 1968

"IT'S A LOW-down... dirty shame," sang big Bob Hite, lead singer with Canned Heat, when the American blues group in the NME Chart with 'On The Road Again' appeared at London's Revolution last week. But it wasn't a low-down dirty shame — it was real deep-in-the-gut blues sound that made a lighter-shaded single like 'On The Road Again' seem like a nursery song.

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