Hallelujah (album)

Hallelujah

Studio album by Canned Heat

Released

July 8, 1969

Recorded

May 1969 at I.D. Sound Recorders Hollywood, CA

Genre

Blues

Length

38:04

Label

Liberty

Producer

Skip Taylor

Canned Heat chronology

Living the Blues
(1968)

Hallelujah
(1969)

Future Blues
(1970)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Rolling Stone	(favorable) ^[2]

Hallelujah is the fourth album by Canned Heat, released in 1969. It was re-released on CD in 2001 by MAM productions with four bonus tracks. It was the last album to feature classic lineup mark 1, as Vestine left the band prior to Future Blues.

Track listing

Side One

"Same All Over" (Canned Heat) – 2:51
- Bob Hite - lead vocals
- Alan Wilson - guitar, pigs
- Henry Vestine - guitar, pigs
- Larry Taylor - bass
- Fito De la Parra - drums, pigs
- Elliot Ingber - backing vocals
- Javier Batise- backing vocals
- Skip Diamond - backing vocals
- Ernest Lane - organ, piano
"Change My Ways" (Alan Wilson) – 2:47
- Alan Wilson - lead vocals, whistling
- Henry Vestine - guitar
- Larry Taylor - bass
- Fito De la Parra - drums
"Canned Heat" (Robert Hite, Jr. – actually by Tommy Johnson) – 4:22
- Bob Hite - lead vocals
- Alan Wilson - guitar
- Henry Vestine - guitar
- Larry Taylor - bass
- Fito De la Parra - drums
"Sic 'em Pigs" (Robert Hite, Jr.; Booker T. White) – 2:41
- Bob Hite - lead vocals
- Alan Wilson - guitar
- Henry Vestine - guitar
- Larry Taylor - bass, backing vocals
- Fito De la Parra - drums
"I'm Her Man" (A. Leigh – actually by Bob Hite^[3]) – 2:55
- Alan Wilson - guitar, harmonica
- Henry Vestine - guitar
- Larry Taylor - bass
- Fito De la Parra - drums
- Mark Naftalin - organ, piano
"Time Was" (Alan Wilson) – 3:21
- Alan Wilson - guitar, lead vocals
- Henry Vestine - guitar
- Larry Taylor - bass
- Fito De la Parra - drums

Side Two

"Do Not Enter" (Alan Wilson) – 2:50
- Alan Wilson - guitar, lead vocals, harmonica
- Larry Taylor - bass
- Fito De la Parra - drums
"Big Fat (The Fat Man)" (Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino; adapted by Robert Hite, Jr.) – 1:57
- Bob Hite - lead vocals, harmonica
- Alan Wilson - guitar
- Henry Vestine - guitar
- Larry Taylor - bass
- Fito De la Parra - drums
"Huautla" (V. Wolf – actually by Fito de la Parra^[4]) – 3:33
- Alan Wilson - harmonica
- Henry Vestine - guitar
- Larry Taylor - bass
- Fito De la Parra - drums
- Mike Pacheco - bongos, congas
"Get Off My Back" (Alan Wilson) – 5:10
- Alan Wilson - guitar, lead vocals
- Henry Vestine - guitar
- Larry Taylor - bass
- Fito De la Parra - drums
"Down in the Gutter, But Free" (Canned Heat) – 5:37
- Bob Hite - lead vocals
- Alan Wilson - harmonica
- Henry Vestine - bass
- Larry Taylor - guitar
- Fito De la Parra - drums
- Skip Diamond - backing vocals
- Elliot Ingber - backing vocals
- Mark Naftalin - organ, piano

Bonus tracks from 2001 CD release

"Time Was" – Single Version (Wilson) – 2:34
"Low Down" (Canned Heat) – 2:30
"Poor Moon" (Wilson) – 2:43
"Sic 'em Pigs" – Single Version (Hite, White) – 1:54

Personnel

^[5]

Canned Heat

Bob Hite – vocals, harmonica (on track 8)
Alan Wilson – slide guitar, vocals, harmonica, whistling (on track 2)
Henry Vestine – lead guitar, public service announcement (on track 4), bass (on track 11)
Larry Taylor – bass, guitar (on track 11)
Fito de la Parra – drums

Additional Personnel

Ernest Lane – piano (on track 1)
Mark Naftalin – organ, piano (on tracks 5, 11)
Javier Batiz – group vocals (on track 1)
Skip Diamond – group vocals (on tracks 1, 11)
Elliot Ingber – group vocals (on tracks 1, 11)
Mike Pacheco – bongos and congas (on track 9)

Production

Produced by Skip Taylor and Canned Heat
Engineered by Richard Joseph Moore
Recorded at I. D. Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California
January, February, March, April, and May, 1969

References

↑ Allmusic review
↑ Hansen, Barret (23 August 1969). "Records". Rolling Stone (San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.) (40): 37. Retrieved 13 November 1969. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ Fito de la Parra, Living The Blues.(2000)
↑ Fito de la Parra, Living The Blues.(2000)
↑ LP Liberty LST-7618

Fito De La Parra, Living The Blues. Canned Heat's story of Music, Drugs, Death, Sex and Survival (2000) ISBN 0-9676449-0-9

Canned Heat

Bob Hite Alan Wilson Henry Vestine Larry Taylor Adolfo de la Parra Harvey Mandel

Studio albums	Canned Heat Boogie with Canned Heat Living the Blues Hallelujah Future Blues Vintage Hooker 'n Heat Historical Figures and Ancient Heads The New Age One More River to Cross Reheated

Live albums	Canned Heat '70 Concert Live in Europe Live at Topanga Corral

Compilations	Let's Work Together: The Best of Canned Heat Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat

Singles	"Rollin' and Tumblin'" "On the Road Again" "Going Up the Country" "Let's Work Together (Let's Stick Together)"

Other songs	"Spoonful" "Got My Mojo Working" "Pretty Thing" "Dimples" "Talk to Me Baby (I Can't Hold Out)" "Evil Is Going On" "Goin' Down Slow" "Catfish Blues" "Dust My Broom" "Help Me" "The Hunter" "Mean Old World" "Pony Blues" "Terraplane Blues" "Big Fat (The Fat Man)" "I Wish You Would" "It Hurts Me Too" "That's All Right (Mama)" "Bring It On Home" "Killing Floor" "Meet Me in the Bottom" "Driftin' Blues" "Boogie Chillen No. 2" "That's All Right" "Shake, Rattle and Roll" "Night Time Is the Right Time" "Chicken Shack Boogie" "Take Me to the River"

Related articles	Discography Tommy Johnson Floyd Jones Jug band Boogie rock Johnny Otis John Lee Hooker

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