Hallelujah (album)

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.

Hallelujah
Studio album by Canned Heat
Released	July 8, 1969
Recorded	May 1969
Studio	I.D. Sound Recorders, Hollywood, CA
Genre	Blues, blues rock
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]

Track listing

Side One

1. "Same All Over" (Canned Heat) – 2:51
   • Bob Hite - lead vocals
   • Alan Wilson - guitar
   • Henry Vestine - guitar
   • Larry Taylor - bass
   • Fito De la Parra - drums
   • Elliot Ingber - backing vocals
   • Javier Batise- backing vocals
   • Skip Diamond - backing vocals
   • Ernest Lane - organ, piano
2. "Change My Ways" (Alan Wilson) – 2:47
   • Alan Wilson - lead vocals, whistling, guitar
   • Henry Vestine - guitar
   • Larry Taylor - bass
   • Fito De la Parra - drums
3. "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
4. "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
5. "I'm Her Man" (A. Leigh – actually by Bob Hite[3]) – 2:55
   • Bob Hite - lead vocals
   • Alan Wilson - guitar, harmonica
   • Henry Vestine - guitar
   • Larry Taylor - bass
   • Fito De la Parra - drums
   • Mark Naftalin - organ, piano
6. "Time Was" (Alan Wilson) – 3:21
   • Alan Wilson - guitar, lead vocals
   • Henry Vestine - guitar
   • Larry Taylor - bass
   • Fito De la Parra - drums

Side Two

1. "Do Not Enter" (Alan Wilson) – 2:50
   • Alan Wilson - guitar, lead vocals, harmonica
   • Larry Taylor - bass
   • Fito De la Parra - drums
2. "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
3. "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
4. "Get Off My Back" (Alan Wilson) – 5:10
   • Alan Wilson - guitar, lead vocals
   • Henry Vestine - guitar
   • Larry Taylor - bass
   • Fito De la Parra - drums
5. "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

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

Personnel

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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

1. Allmusic review
2. Hansen, Barret (23 August 1969). "Records". Rolling Stone. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. (40): 37. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
3. Fito de la Parra, Living The Blues.(2000)
4. Fito de la Parra, Living The Blues.(2000)
5. 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