Jon Savage on song: Canned Heat's Woodstock anthem

After the excesses of psychedelia and the ravages of the Vietnam war, Going Up the Country caught the countercultural mood in early 1969 with its yearning for a rural retreatReleased right at the end of 1968, Canned Heat's Going Up the Country went top 20 in the US and the UK in early 1969. Based on Bulldoze Blues by Henry Thomas – a Texan country blues singer recording during the 20s – it was sourced and sung by Alan Wilson: Canned Heat's guitarist, long-time blues researcher and,...

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