Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in
Los Angeles, California, USA, in 1965. The group has been
noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well
as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music
and its original artists. It was launched by two blues
enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name
from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat
Blues", a song about an alcoholic who had
desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called
"canned heat".