This is the long-awaited story of Alan Wilson, musical genius and
co-founder of Canned Heat. Biographer Rebecca Davis 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 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".
