<Li> Fender Duo Sonic </Li> <Li> Gibson ES - 335 </Li> <P> Alan Christie Wilson (July 4, 1943--September 3, 1970) was a co-founder, leader, and primary composer for the American blues band Canned Heat . He played harmonica, guitar, and sang with the group live and on recordings . Wilson was lead singer on Canned Heat's two biggest U.S. hit singles . His death at age 27 prefigured that of some of the other rock artists of the 1960s . </P> <P> Wilson was born and grew up in the Boston suburb of Arlington, Massachusetts . Some of Wilson's first efforts at performing music publicly came during his teen years with a jazz ensemble he formed with other musically oriented friends from school . It was around this same time that Wilson developed a fascination with blues music after a friend played a Muddy Waters record for him . After graduating from Arlington High School, he majored in music at Boston University and played the Cambridge, Massachusetts coffeehouse folk - blues circuit . Wilson developed into a dedicated student of early blues, writing a number of articles for Broadside of Boston newspaper and the folk - revival magazine Little Sandy Review, including a piece on bluesman Robert Pete Williams . </P>

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