Going Up the Country
| "Going Up the Country" | ||||
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US single picture sleeve | ||||
| Single by Canned Heat | ||||
| from the album Living the Blues | ||||
| B-side | "One Kind Favor" | |||
| Released | 1968 | |||
| Recorded | 1968 | |||
| Studio | I.D. Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California | |||
| Genre | Blues rock | |||
| Length | 2:50 | |||
| Label | Liberty | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Alan Wilson (see text) | |||
| Producer(s) | Canned Heat, Skip Taylor | |||
| Canned Heat singles chronology | ||||
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"Going Up the Country" (also "Goin' Up the Country") is a song adapted and recorded by American blues rock band Canned Heat. Called a "rural hippie anthem", it became one of the band's biggest hits and best-known songs. As with their previous single, "On the Road Again", the song was adapted from a 1920s blues song by Henry Thomas "Bull Doze Blues" and sung by Alan Wilson.