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Alan Wilson (musician)

Index Alan Wilson (musician)

Alan Christie Wilson (July 4, 1943 – September 3, 1970) was a co-founder, leader, and primary composer for the American blues band Canned Heat. [1]

74 relations: Album, Arlington High School (Massachusetts), Arlington, Massachusetts, Barbiturate overdose, Blues, Blues rock, Bob Hite, Boogie rock, Boogie with Canned Heat, Boston University, Botany, Bukka White, California, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Canned Heat, Canned Heat '70 Concert Live in Europe, Canned Heat (album), Charley Patton, Columbia Records, Conservation movement, Countertenor, Dick Waterman, DownBeat, Duane Allman, Ecology, Extraversion and introversion, Fred Neil, Fred Neil (album), Future Blues (Canned Heat album), Going Up the Country, Hallelujah (album), Harmonica, Hooker 'n Heat, Janis Joplin, Jazz Journal, Jimi Hendrix, John Fahey (musician), John Lee Hooker, Lead vocalist, Liberty Records, Living the Blues, Los Angeles, Major depressive disorder, Manassas (album), Massachusetts, Monterey Pop Festival, Moon, Muddy Waters, Near-sightedness, On the Road Again (Canned Heat song), ..., Pitch (music), Robert Johnson, Robert Pete Williams, Save-the-Redwoods League, Sequoioideae, Severn Records, Skip James, Son House, Song structure, Stephen Stills, Suicide, Sunnyland Slim, Tanbur, The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party & Other Excursions, Tommy Johnson (musician), Topanga, California, United States, University of California, Los Angeles, Vintage (Canned Heat album), Woodstock, Woodstock (film), Woodstock 2, Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, 27 Club. Expand index (24 more) »

Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Arlington High School (Massachusetts)

Arlington High School is a public high school located in Arlington, Massachusetts.

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Arlington, Massachusetts

Arlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, six miles (10 km) northwest of Boston.

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Barbiturate overdose

Barbiturate overdose is poisoning due to excessive doses of barbiturates.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Blues rock

Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock.

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Bob Hite

Robert Ernest Hite (February 26, 1943 – April 5, 1981) was the lead singer of the American blues-rock band, Canned Heat, from 1965 to his death in 1981.

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Boogie rock

Boogie rock is a music genre which came out of the hard heavy blues rock of the late 1960s.

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Boogie with Canned Heat

Boogie with Canned Heat is the second album by Canned Heat, released in 1968.

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Boston University

Boston University (commonly referred to as BU) is a private, non-profit, research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Bukka White

Booker T. Washington "Bukka" White (November 12, 1906 or 1909February 26, 1977) was an African-American Delta blues guitarist and singer.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Canned Heat

Canned Heat is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965.

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Canned Heat '70 Concert Live in Europe

Canned Heat '70 Concert Recorded Live in Europe is a 1970 live album by Canned Heat.

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Canned Heat (album)

Canned Heat is the 1967 debut album by Canned Heat.

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Charley Patton

Charley Patton (died April 28, 1934), also known as Charlie Patton, was an American Delta blues musician.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Conservation movement

The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.

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Countertenor

A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a specific kind of countertenor) may match the soprano's range of around C4 to C6.

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Dick Waterman

Dick Waterman (born July 14, 1935, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States) is an American writer, promoter and photographer, who has been influential in the development and recording of the blues since the 1960s.

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DownBeat

DownBeat (stylized DOWNBEAT) is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years.

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Duane Allman

Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971) was an American guitarist, session musician, and co-founder and leader of the Allman Brothers Band until his death following a motorcycle crash in 1971, at the age of 24.

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Ecology

Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.

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Extraversion and introversion

The trait of extraversion–introversion is a central dimension of human personality theories.

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Fred Neil

Frederick Neil (March 16, 1936 – July 7, 2001) was an American folk singer-songwriter in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Fred Neil (album)

Fred Neil is the second album from Fred Neil, a pioneer folk rock musician.

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Future Blues (Canned Heat album)

Future Blues is the fifth album by American rock band Canned Heat, released in 1970.

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Going Up the Country

"Going Up the Country" (also Goin' Up the Country) is a song adapted and recorded by American blues rock band Canned Heat.

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Hallelujah (album)

Hallelujah is the fourth album by Canned Heat, released in 1969.

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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

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Hooker 'n Heat

Hooker 'n Heat is a double album released by blues legend John Lee Hooker and blues-rock band Canned Heat in early 1971.

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Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) nicknamed The Pearl, was an American rock, soul and blues singer and songwriter, and one of the most successful and widely-known female rock stars of her era.

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Jazz Journal

Jazz Journal is a British jazz magazine established in 1946 by Sinclair Traill (1904–1981).

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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John Fahey (musician)

John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument.

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John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917; retrieved August 22, 2017. – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Liberty Records

Liberty Records was a United States-based record label.

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Living the Blues

Living the Blues is the third album by Canned Heat, a double album released in late 1968.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Major depressive disorder

Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known simply as depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of low mood that is present across most situations.

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Manassas (album)

Manassas is the 1972 debut double album by Stephen Stills' band of the same name.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Monterey Pop Festival

The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California.

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Moon

The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth and is Earth's only permanent natural satellite.

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Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

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Near-sightedness

Near-sightedness, also known as short-sightedness and myopia, is a condition of the eye where light focuses in front of, instead of on, the retina.

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On the Road Again (Canned Heat song)

"On the Road Again" is a song recorded by the American blues-rock group Canned Heat in 1967.

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Pitch (music)

Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.

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Robert Johnson

Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911August 16, 1938) was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician.

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Robert Pete Williams

Robert Pete Williams (March 14, 1914 – December 31, 1980) was an American Louisiana blues musician.

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Save-the-Redwoods League

Save the Redwoods League is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to protect and restore Coast redwood (''Sequoia sempervirens'') forests.

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Sequoioideae

Sequoioideae (redwoods) is a subfamily of coniferous trees within the family Cupressaceae.

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Severn Records

Severn Records is an American independent record label that concentrates on blues music.

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Skip James

Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 9, 1902October 3, 1969) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter.

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Son House

Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21, 1902His date of birth is a matter of some debate. House alleged that he was middle-aged during World War I and that he was 79 in 1965, which would make his date of birth around 1886. However, all legal records give his date of birth as March 21, 1902. – October 19, 1988) was an American delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing.

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Song structure

Song structure or the musical forms of songs in traditional music and music are typically sectional, repeating forms used in songs, such as strophic form and is a part of the songwriting process.

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Stephen Stills

Stephen Arthur Stills (born January 3, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Sunnyland Slim

Albert Luandrew (September 5, 1906 – March 17, 1995), "Blues pianist and singer Sunnyland Slim was born Albert Luandrew in Vance, Mississippi, September 5, 1906 (most sources say 1907, but the Social Security Death Index and 1920 census data give the date as 1906)." known as Sunnyland Slim, was an American blues pianist who was born in the Mississippi Delta and moved to Chicago, helping to make that city a center of postwar blues.

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Tanbur

The terms Tanbur, Tanbūr, Tanbura, Tambur, Tambura or Tanboor can refer to various long-necked, string instruments originating in Mesopotamia, Southern or Central Asia.

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The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party & Other Excursions

The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party & Other Excursions is an album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1966.

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Tommy Johnson (musician)

Tommy Johnson (January 1896 – November 1, 1956) was an American Delta blues musician who recorded in the late 1920s and was known for his eerie falsetto voice and intricate guitar playing.

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Topanga, California

Topanga is a census-designated place (CDP) in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, United States.

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Vintage (Canned Heat album)

Vintage is the sixth album by Canned Heat.

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Woodstock

The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000.

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Woodstock (film)

Woodstock is a 1970 documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York.

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Woodstock 2

Woodstock 2 (or woodstock two as on the cover) is the second live album released of the 1969 Woodstock Festival concert.

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Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More

Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More is a live album of selected performances from the 1969 Woodstock counterculture festival.

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27 Club

The 27 Club is a list of popular musicians, artists, or actors who died at age twenty-seven.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wilson_(musician)

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