PHILIPPE PARINGAUX CHRONICLE MAGAZINE ROCK & FOLK N ° 45 October 1970 Page 78 6 ° 33 rpm albums 1970 Ref: 11002 Liberty LST us "My time is not long," sing, sang Alan Wilson was, and this is the point made swollen tribute to the dead for the simple reason that he died, was probably the greatest white blues singer of her generation. Not content with everything about the blues, he knew also sing and play it right to do so, just, really from the heart. This album is once again in evidence, which is the best product to date by a group that has never disappointed. Despite constant changes in personnel, Canned Heat have continued to improve over the records. By no means looking for any formal perfection that could only harm the sincerity of their expression, they can not help with the time and with experience, to possess better their art. Art stripped, live happy, extraordinarily catchy. Individual and collective technique appears therefore as a mere instrument, hidden by the work he has forged. Nothing is in vain "Future Blues", nothing is useless, as it could sometimes be the case in "Living The Blues", no demonstration of virtuosity. Just a real blues expressed with warmth, no frills. This does not mean that is the solo Harvey Mandel, exceptional guitarist, are negligible. No, just they flow source, perfectly integrated into the whole, not hair in the middle of the soup, as are many solos. No need to look to favor a song, a moment; all are of equal quality and intensity, colored in different ways depending on whether Wilson and Hite sing, all supported by this tempo both weighing and hopping, shuffle, which is one of the group's trademarks, pierced by games meddling of the two guitars sound castings (Wilson) or biting (Mandel). Dirty and raw music when Bob sang the big, fluid and moving when the frail voice of Alan C. takes over. And this humor always at ground which is one of the characteristics of authentic blues thing that many groups who claim to play this music seem to ignore. Definitely, without noise and despite the incredible sum of human problems that confront them - the last one wonders how they will solve dated, Alan Wilson is perfectly irreplaceable - the Canned Heat necessary, disc after disc as one of the groups that we listen with the greatest pleasure. But pleasure, this time, is infinitely sad.
