Living the Blues

Infobox Album |
Name = Living the Blues
Type = double album
Artist = Canned Heat


Caption = Cover of the original 1968 LP
Released = October 1968
Recorded = August-October 1968 at I.D. Sound Studios and "live" at The Kaleidoscope, Hollywood, California
Genre = Blues
Length = 1:28:03
Label = Liberty
Producer = Skip Taylor
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8src288c05oa link]
Last album = "Boogie with Canned Heat"
(1968)
This album = "Living the Blues"
(1968)
Next album = "Hallelujah"
(1969)

"Living the Blues" is a 1968 double album by Canned Heat. It was one of the first double albums to place well on album charts. It features Canned Heat's signature song, "Going Up The Country," which would later be used in the Woodstock film. John Mayall appears on piano on "Walking by Myself" and "Bear Wires." Dr. John appears on "Boogie Music." The 20-minute trippy suite "Parthenogenesis" is dwarfed by the album-length "Refried Boogie," recorded live.

Track listing

#"Pony Blues" (Charley Patton) – 3:48
#"My Mistake" (Alan Wilson) – 3:22
#"Sandy's Blues" (Bob Hite) – 6:46 Canned Heat, Joe Sample
#"Going Up The Country" (Wilson) – 2:50
#"Walking by Myself" (Jimmy Rogers) – 2:29
#"Boogie Music" (L.T. Tatman III) – 3:19
#"One Kind Favor" (Tatman) – 4:43
#"Parthenogenesis" (Medley) (Canned Heat) – 19:57
#:"Nebulosity"
#:"Rollin' and Tumblin"
#:"Five Owls"
#:"Bear Wires"
#:"Snooky Flowers"
#:"Sunflower Power"
#:"Raga Kafi"
#:"Icebag"
#:"Childhood's End"
#"Refried Boogie" (Canned Heat) – 40:51

Credits

Canned Heat

*Bob Hite – vocals
*Alan Wilson – Slide Guitar, vocals, Harmonica
*Henry Vestine– Lead guitar
*Larry Taylor – Electric Bass
*Fito de la Parra – drums

Additional Personnel

*Dr. John Creaux - Horn Arrangements, Piano (Boogie Music)
*Miles Grayson - Horn Arrangements (Sandy's Blues)
*Joe Sample - Piano (Sandy's Blues)

Production

*Rich Moore - Engineer
*Ivan Fisher - Assistant Engineer
*Skip Taylor - Producer
*Canned Heat - Producer