6/14/2023 0 Comments Alan blind wilsonSeems like we set our hearts on exploding them all at once, and yet we never even considered the consequences. We changed too fast, too furiously, acting like crazy children with a box of fireworks. Been here forever, and will go on being here long after all of you have gone. The rivers, the valleys, the woods, the sea, the coastline, the rocks, the cliffs, the trees. Out there on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada. Maybe I just needed to see sounds, and that was all I needed to see. ![]() Maybe that’s why my eyes didn’t work so well. Truth is I never cared to see much beyond the music. Great band, great singer, and sorely missed… So here we are: twenty-seven paragraphs about the voice of Canned Heat. These lines were published as part of a combined literary/graphic exposition in France, but they have never been published in English. ![]() I was asked if I would write twenty-seven paragraphs about someone, and I chose Alan ‘Blind Owl’ Wilson of Canned Heat. He had embarked on a project to celebrate and commemorate members of the Mythic 27 Club, those artistes who had died at the age of twenty-seven.Īmongst the seemingly endless roster of names were such greats as Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison. Some time ago I was approached by an acquaintance.
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