On the Road Again (Canned Heat song)

"On the Road Again"
Single by Canned Heat
from the album Boogie with Canned Heat
B-side"Boogie Music"
ReleasedApril 24, 1968 (1968-04-24)
RecordedSeptember 6, 1967
StudioLiberty, Los Angeles
Genre
Length
  • 4:55 (album version)
  • 3:33 (single version)
LabelLiberty
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Cal Carter
Canned Heat singles chronology
"Evil Woman"
(1967)
"On the Road Again"
(1968)
"Going Up the Country"
(1968)
Official audio
"On The Road Again" (Remastered 2005) on YouTube

"On the Road Again" is a song recorded by the American blues rock group Canned Heat in 1967. A driving blues rock boogie, it was adapted from earlier blues songs and includes mid-1960s psychedelic rock elements. Unlike most of Canned Heat's songs from the period which were sung by Bob Hite, second guitarist and harmonica player Alan Wilson provides the distinctive high-pitched vocal, sometimes described as a falsetto.

"On the Road Again" first appeared on their second album, Boogie with Canned Heat, in January 1968. An edited version was released as a single in April 1968 on the Liberty label and became Canned Heat's first record chart hit and one of their best-known songs.