Blind Owl Blues
by Rebecca Davis Winters
246 pages· 2007· ISBN 9780615146171
About
The life and death of Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson (1943-1970), seminal yet unfortunately overlooked musician, environmentalist, musicologist, thinker, and human being. This is the long-awaited story of Alan Wilson, musical genius and co-founder of Canned Heat. Biographer Rebecca Davis Winters journeys through his artistic innovations, tormented personal life, obsessive love of nature, and mysterious death. A key figure in the 1960s "blues revival", Wilson participated in the rediscovery of Delta blues legend Son House and wrote scholarly analyses of House and Robert Pete Williams. He went on to co-found pioneering blues-rock band Canned Heat, becoming an unlikely rock star. Known as "Blind Owl", he was responsible for the hit songs "Going Up the Country" and "On the Road Again."
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