Jeff Healey passed away today. He had been battling Cancer in one form or another since he was one, which caused his blindness. He would have turned 42 in 23-days.



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Norman Jeffrey Healey


aka


Jeff Healey

March 25, 1966 – March 2, 2008

R.I.P.

I just read about it. Jeff was the first live show I ever saw when I was a wee sprout at a music festival in Sarnia, Ontario with the folks.

He had just not long finished a Blues album, Mess of Blues, his first Blues ablum in years, which is scheduled to be released in a few weeks.

Healey helped spread the Blues to a wider audience within Canada (and helped expand a love of the Blues to this here Canuck), and for that The Zola is ever grateful.

Thanks, Jeff. Be well.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBBCJ...eature=related (check out who's on the keys on this one - and watch Jeff go completely mental at the end. Solid.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUVdB...eature=related (a stellar performance at Mont Tremblant International Blues Fest)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xykE...eature=related

R.I.P.

I never liked blues produced later than early sixties. The essential was kind of gone to me. If there's one artist of that genre that gave me chickenpox, it was him. I always loved his version of Yer blues, While my guitar gently weeps and Angel better than the original.

He'll be missed.

RIP Jeff Healy

He really was one of my favourite artists. He put so much in his guitar, in his voice. A lot of the songs he covered I liked a lot better then the original. He was still so young, but he'll never be forgotten.

I hear ya, though I'm more inclined to dislike Blues that was produced by artists debuting after the 60s, rather than Blues itself after the 60s. Never liked SRV or The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and all that pretentious sounding monkey junk. But Jeff. Jeff had something different, something convincing that he was walkin' the back streets cryin'. He knew the Blues and he is likely the greatest modern example of an electric Bluesman.

Great player...RIP Jeff.

Here's an example of Jeff and Stevie soloing one after the other on the same stage...YOU be the judge...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqU9R...ad.php?t=23121

Who, me?

Okay. Jeff had a better sound than SRV; though, I do admit to my bias since I really don't dig SRV.

I never liked SRV that much...

I prefer Stevie's brother above him. Jimmy Vaughn. He does so much more with less notes. The r'n'r principle basically.

SRV is one of those "the more notes I hit, the cooler I look" type of guys.

In my humble opinion ofcourse...

Indeed. SRV was the cock rocker of blues. His music I call blues, whereas the music of, say, Furry Lewis is Blues!