Horn of Africa covered the Simien and Bale Mountains but melted at the beginning of the Holocene. The mountains descend in a huge escarpment to the Red Sea and more steadily to the Indian Ocean. Socotra is a small island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia. Its size is 3,600 km (1,390 sq mi) and it is a territory of Yemen. The lowlands of the Horn are generally arid in spite of their proximity to the equator. This is because the winds of the tropical monsoons that give seasonal rains to the Sahel and the Sudan blow from the west.
Going Up the Country ambiguous: "Going Up the Country" was first released on Canned Heat's third album, "Living the Blues", in October 1968. Liberty Records released the song as a single on November 22, 1968, which peaked at number 11 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart on January 25, 1969. "Going Up the Country" was Canned Heat's highest charting single in the US. In January 7, 1969, the song peaked at number 19 on the UK Singles Chart. The song appears on several Canned Heat compilation albums, including "Canned Heat Cookbook", "" (1989) and "Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat" (1994). Canned