Alan Wilson
Alan Wilson , born the July 4th 1943 with Boston (Massachusetts) and deceased the September 3rd 1970, is an American musician, cofounder of the group Canned Heat. It was called " the Blind Owl" because of its bad sight.
Graduate in music, Alan Wilson is an excellent harmonicist and slide guitarist, it interprets some of the large tubes of Canned Heat like " One the road again" or " Going up to the country". Its timid and choked voice brings to the group an inimitable style. It takes part in many festivals of the time of which Woodstock, in 1969.
In 1970, it carries out its dream and records an album with legendary the bluesman John Lee Hooker, which presents it like the best harmonicist of planet.
At the beginning of the month of September 1970, Canned Heat is in England. The group has just taken part in the 2nd edition of the festival of the island of Wight, in prelude to a new European round.
Al Wilson decides to return a few days to California. September 3rd, its body is discovered in a bag of bed in the middle of the sequoias of Topanga Canyon. Militant active ecologist, it had chosen to spend the night to this place, as a recluse, in the middle of the nature which it liked so much. Depressive, he succumbs to an overdose of drug. He was 27 years old.
| Random links: | Galaxywars | Song of the nightingale | Aral (Xinjiang) | Charles TAIT | Ludwigshöhe | Chanteur-Brewster_de_Stephen |