This is quite an interesting live album. I mean, you can tell that just by knowing that Canned Heat is joined on stage by blues legend John Lee Hooker. The set does not disappoint, that’s for sure. I will say that the sound quality is not perfect, but that’s sort of a feature of the timeframe and the fact that it’s a live recording. Even then, it’s quite listenable.

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With a dedication to Abbie Hoffman, this old time rock and roller is fun. It seems a little distorted in terms of sound quality. Still, that might not be the recording so much as the stage mix.

Here we get a shuffling boogie based blues rocker. I like this one a lot. It’s one of the best on the whole set, really. The guitar solo section almost makes me think of Led Zeppelin in some ways. This is an extended jam that gets quite intense at times. The jam gets pretty exploratory later and shifts to a drum solo.

This stomper gets a great live rendering here. It gets into some pretty exploratory sections later in the mix.