Alan "Blind Owl" Christie Wilson (July 4, 1943 – September 3, 1970) was the leader, singer, and primary composer in the American blues band Canned Heat. He played guitar and harmonica and wrote most of the songs for the band. Wilson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Topanga Canyon, California of what his autopsy reports as a barbiturate overdose. While some colleagues maintained that he had committed suicide, according to the coroner's report he left no note and there is no conclusive evidence to support the suicide theory. He performed at two of the greatest concerts of the 1960s, the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and Woodstock in 1969. His unique high tenor vocals made him instantly recognizable among other vocalists of the era, and are clearly heard on the film (Woodstock, which chose Canned Heat's "Going Up the Country" as the unofficial theme tune to Woodstock)..