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  • Blind Owl Blues

  • The Mysterious Life and Death of Blues Legend Alan Wilson
  • By: Rebecca Davis
  • Narrated by: Nick Marinovich
  • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins

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By: Rebecca Davis
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Summary

This is the long-awaited story of Alan Wilson, musical genius and co-founder of Canned Heat. Biographer Rebecca Davis journeys through his artistic innovations, tormented personal life, obsessive love of nature, and mysterious death. A key figure in the 1960s "blues revival", Wilson participated in the rediscovery of Son House, and wrote scholarly analyses of House and Robert Pete Williams. He went on to co-found pioneering blues-rock band Canned Heat, becoming an unlikely rock star. Known as "Blind Owl", he was responsible for the hit songs "Going Up the Country" and "On the Road Again".

©2013 Rebecca Davis (P)2022 Rebecca Davis

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