Live at Topanga Corral

Live at Topanga Corral is a 1971 live album by Canned Heat. The album is taken from a 1968 concert at the Kaleidoscope in Hollywood, California and not at the Topanga Corral as the title suggests. Canned Heat was under contract to Liberty Records at the time and Liberty did not want to do a live album, so manager Skip Taylor told Liberty that the album had been recorded in 1966 & 1967 at the Topanga Corral and released the record with Wand Records to avoid legal complications.[2] The record has been bootlegged and reissued countless times, and is also known as Live at the Kaleidoscope.

Live at Topanga Corral
Live album by
Released1971
Recorded1968 at the Kaleidoscope in Hollywood, California
GenreBlues
Length46:37
LabelWand
ProducerSkip Taylor, Canned Heat
Canned Heat chronology
Hooker 'n Heat
(1971)
Live at Topanga Corral
(1971)
Historical Figures and Ancient Heads
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Track listing

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  1. "Bullfrog Blues" (Canned Heat) – 7:21
  2. "Sweet Sixteen" (Joe Josea, B.B. King) – 10:57
  3. "I'd Rather Be the Devil" (A. Leigh – actually Elmore James, Robert Johnson) – 5:10
  4. "Dust My Broom" (Elmore James, Robert Johnson) – 5:46
  5. "Wish You Would" (Billy Boy Arnold) – 8:03
  6. "When Things Go Wrong" (A. Leigh – actually Hudson Whittaker) – 9:08

Personnel

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Canned Heat
Production
  • "A Rainstory Production by Richard Moore and Michael O'Bryant" (as indicated on LP)[3]
  • Skip Taylor and Canned Heat – actual Producers

Notes

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  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ de la Parra (2000), p.354.
  3. ^ LP Wand WDS 693

References

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  • de la Parra, Fito (2000). Living the Blues: Canned Heat's Story of Music, Drugs, Death, Sex and Survival ISBN 0-9676449-0-9.