Canned Heat

Canned Heat is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its interpretations of blues material and for its efforts to promote 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". After appearances at the Monterey and Woodstock festivals at the end of the 1960s, the band acquired worldwide fame with a lineup consisting of Bob Hite (vocals), Alan Wilson (guitar, harmonica and vocals), Henry Vestine and later Harvey Mandel (lead guitar), Larry Taylor (bass), and Adolfo de la Parra (drums).

Canned Heat may refer to:

• "Sterno Canned Heat", fuel made from denatured and jellied alcohol, designed to be burned directly from its can
  • An alcoholic drink prepared from Sterno Canned Heat
• "Canned Heat Blues", a 1928 song by Tommy Johnson on the drinking of alcohol from Sterno Canned Heat
• Canned Heat, an American blues-rock band, named after the above song
  • Canned Heat (album), Canned Heat's 1967 debut album
  • "Canned Heat", a song on the band's 1969 Hallelujah album
• "Canned Heat" (song), a song by Jamiroquai
• Canned heat, a professional wrestling phrase
• Fiocchi Munizioni 'Canned Heat' ammunition sealed in metal cans enhancing shelf life