Richard Hite

Richard James Hite (born May 18, 1951 in Los Angeles , California , † September 17, 2001 in Memphis, Tennessee ) was an American blues musician and brother of the Canned Heat founder and the blues legend Bob Hite . He was also a member of Canned Heat at times .

Life

Little is known about his childhood, he was born in Los Angeles in 1951. Richard Hite was born with a love for music. His mother was a singer and his father played in a band in Pennsylvania . In 1972 he joined Canned Heat as bassist as the successor to Tony De La Barreda and played on the flopped album "The New Age". He also worked with Clarence Gatemouth Brown and John Lee Hooker . He moved to Bluff City in the early 1980s after being kicked out of Canned Heat. Since his brother was no longer able to lead the band due to years of drug use, Fito De La Parra had now taken over the leadership of the band, he did not like Richard Hite and was upset about his massive drug use, as he was in his Biography describes. In 1983 he produced the album "Memphis Blues Today" for the band "Fieldstones". During this time he also worked on the revision of the Inside Sound label and re-released rarities believed to be lost. His own record collection included around 30,000 records; he was just as gifted a music historian as his brother, after whose death he inherited a large part of the record collection. He died of cancer on September 17, 2001 in Memphis.

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• "Living the Blues" by Fito DeLaParra
• Obituary by Bill Ellis: Richard Hite's musical Wisdom was "Encyclopedic" , 2001, The Commercial Appeal, bluesworld.com