The Jeff Healey Band : See The Light 1988

See the Light is the debut album by The Jeff Healey Band. It was released on September 13, 1988. It was #50 of the top 100 albums in Canada in 1989. In 1990 it was nominated for an "Album of the Year" Juno Award.

What made Jeff Healey different from other blues-rockers was also what kept some listeners from accepting him as anything other than a novelty -- the fact that the blind guitarist played his Fender Stratocaster on his lap, not standing up. With the guitar in his lap, Healey could make unique bends and hammer-ons, making his licks different and more elastic than most of the competition. Unfortunately, his material leaned toward standard AOR blues-rock, which rarely let him cut loose, but when he did, his instrumental prowess could be shocking.

Healey lost his sight at the age of one, after developing eye cancer. He began playing guitar when he was three years old and began performing with his band Blues Direction at the age of 17. Healey formed the Jeff Healey Band in 1985, featuring bassist Joe Rockman and drummer Tom Stephen.

In 2008, a month before the release of his last studio-recorded blues album, Mess of Blues, Healey died from cancer.

TRACKS

1. Confidence Man      John Hiatt     3:12
2. My Little Girl       Jeff Healey     3:10
3. River of No Return       Keith Reid, Jon Tiven, Sally Tiven     3:31
4. Don't Let Your Chance Go By       Healey     3:20
5. Angel Eyes       Hiatt, Fred Koller     5:19
6. Nice Problem to Have       Robbie Blunt, Jeff Healey Band     4:50
7. Someday, Someway       Martin Briley, Danny Tate     3:28
8. I Need to Be Loved       Healey     3:43
9. Blue Jean Blues       Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill     5:39
10.That's What They Say       Healey     4:27
11.Hide Away       Freddie King, Sonny Thompson     4:26
12.See the Light       Healey     4:26

FLAC  Size   316 MB

Jeff Healey : Hell To Pay 1990

Norman Jeffrey "Jeff" Healey (March 25, 1966 - March 2, 2008) was a blind Canadian jazz and blues-rock vocalist and guitarist born in Toronto .

HELL TO PAY is Jeff Healey's best album ever. There are numerous great cuts here, including "Full Circle", "I Think I Love You Too Much", "Can't Get My Hands On You", the title song, "Highway Of Dreams, and numerous others. The one that cuts deepest is a remake of John Hiatt's "Let It All Go", which talks about how people can mess up their lives by staying angry at friends and family for years, and how it doesn't get you anywhere. The closer, "Life Beyond The Sky", describes the decay of modern society as seen through the eyes of a frequent exercise walker, and, overall, most of this album seems to be about life's lessons learned the hard way. If SEE THE LIGHT proved that disabilities don't have to prevent you from living a full life, HELL TO PAY makes that even more clear.

This is a good effort by The Jeff Healey Band to try to capture the essence of the band continuing from their first cd/album.

Jeff Healey : Lead Vocals , Guitars
Joe Rockman : Bass Guitar , Backing Vocals
Tom Stephen : Drums

Additional Musicians

George Harrison
Mark Knopfler
Jeff Lynne
Paul Shaffer
Bobby Whitlock
Sass Jordan
Kat Dyson

Mark Knopfler's guest appearance on "I Think I Love You Too Much" is excellent as well as the late George Harrison's guesting on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" which he originally did as a member of The Beatles. Healey's style is his own but you can see shades of Eric Clapton's original "Gently Weeps" licks on this version.

On March 2, 2008, Healey died of cancer at St. Joseph's Health Centre in his home town of Toronto.

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HELL TO PAY


When you think you've got problems you don't really need
They may be not as bad as they seem
Cause in a world full of misery with hatred and greed
Your problems are another man's dream

Now when your own little world seems to be in a state
And you think you may be losing mind
Just remember the people
Who only can wait for happiness they never will find, and

Chorus:
You know problems come and problems go
This is something you should know
There's people in the world today
Who don't have nothing but hell to pay

Now when your life and success
Has got you living in doubt
And you're feeling like nowhere to turn
Just remember the world
That you don't know about
And all the lessons that you can, 'cause

Chorus

When you think you've got problems you don't really need
They may be not as bad as they seem
Cause in a world full of misery with hatred and greed
Your problems are another man's dream, and

You know problems come and problems go
This is something you should know
There's people in the world today
Who don't have nothing but hell to pay



Tracks


1. Full Circle
2. I Think I Love You Too Much - Jeff Healey , Mark Knopfler
3. I Can't Get My Hands on You
4. How Long Can a Man Be Strong - Jeff Healey , Steve Cropper
5. Let It All Go - Jeff Healey,John Hiatt
6. Hell to Pay
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Jeff Lynne , George Harrison
8. Something to Hold on To
9. How Much - Jeff Healey , Greg Sutton
10. Highway of Dreams
11. Life Beyond the Sky

Size : 113 MB
Year : 1990
Format : Vinyl LP
Label : Arista Records
Distributed by BMG
Made : In Greece
Bitrate : 320

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Jeff Healey : Cover to Cover 1995

Norman Jeffrey "Jeff" Healey (March 25, 1966 - March 2, 2008) was a blind Canadian jazz and blues-rock vocalist and guitarist

Born in Toronto, Jeff Healey was raised in the city's west end. He was adopted . His adoptive father was a firefighter. When he was eight months old, Healey lost his sight to retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the eyes. The eyes had to be surgically removed, and he was given artificial replacements.

Healey began playing guitar when he was three, developing his unique style of playing the instrument flat on his lap. When he was 17, he formed the band Blue Direction, a four-piece band which primarily played bar-band cover tunes. Among the other musicians were bassist Jeremy Littler, drummer Graydon Chapman, and a schoolmate, Rob Quail on second guitar (Littler was later replaced by bassist Ian McIntyre). This band played various local clubs in Toronto, including the Colonial Tavern.



For many years, Healey performed at his club, "Healey's" on Bathurst Street in Toronto, where he played with "The Healey's House Band" on Thursday nights and with his jazz group on Saturday afternoons. The club moved to a bigger location at 56 Blue Jays Way and it was rechristened "Jeff Healey's Roadhouse". Though he had lent his name to the club and often played there, Jeff Healey did not own or manage the bar. Healey also starred in the 1989 movie Road House alongside Patrick Swayze.

Over the years, Healey toured and sat-in with many legendary performers, including Dire Straits, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, BB King, ZZ Top, Steve Lukather, Eric Clapton and many more. In 2006, Healey appeared on Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan's CD/DVD Gillan's Inn.



Healey discovered and helped develop the careers of other artists, including Terra Hazelton and Amanda Marshall.

In early 2009, Healey's 'Mess of Blues' won in The 8th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Blues Album.


On January 11, 2007, Healey underwent surgery to remove metastatic tissue from both lungs. In the previous eighteen months, he had two sarcomas removed from his legs.

On March 2, 2008, Healey died of cancer at St. Joseph's Health Centre in his home town of Toronto.
His death came a month before the release of his album, Mess of Blues, which was his first rock/blues album in eight years.

TRAXS

1 . Shapes Of Things 4:35
Electric Guitar [Additional] - Pat Rush
Written-By - Keith Relf , Paul Samwell-Smith
2 . Freedom 3:33
Mixed By - Tom Stephen
Written-By - Jimi Hendrix
3 . Yer Blues 4:31
Written-By - John Lennon, Paul McCartney*
4 . Stop Breakin' Down 4:20
Electric Guitar [Additional] - Pat Rush
Keyboards - Paul Shaffer
Written-By - Robert Johnson
5 . Angel 4:28
Backing Vocals - Amanda Marshall , Mischke , Stevie Vain
Keyboards - Paul Shaffer
Percussion - Art Avalos
Written-By - Jimi Hendrix
6 . Evil 3:47
Electric Guitar [Additional] - Pat Rush
Harp - Jerome Godboo
Written-By - Willie Dixon
7 . Stuck In The Middle With You 4:04
Electric Guitar [Additional] - Pat Rush
Keyboards - Denis Keldi
Written-By - Gerry Rafferty , Joe Egan
8 . I Got A Line On You 3:11
Backing Vocals - Kipp Lennon , Mark Lennon , Michael Lennon
Harp - Jerome Godboo
Keyboards - Roy Bittan
Percussion - Art Avalos , Rick Lazar
Written-By - Randy California
9 . Run Through The Jungle 4:23
Backing Vocals - Stevie Vain
Electric Guitar [Additional] - Pat Rush
Keyboards - Paul Shaffer
Percussion - Art Avalos
Written-By - J.C. Fogerty
10 . As The Years Go Passing By 6:46
Keyboards - Roy Bittan
Written-By - Malone
11 . I'm Ready 3:33
Electric Guitar [Additional] - Pat Rush
Keyboards - Roy Bittan
Written-By - Willie Dixon
12 . Badge 3:56
Keyboards - Paul Shaffer
Written-By - Eric Clapton , George Harrison
13. Communication Breakdown 3:14
Electric Guitar [Additional] - Pat Rush
Harmonica - John Popper
Written-By - Jimmy Page , John Bonham , John Paul Jones
14 . Me And My Crazy Self 2:50
Written-By - Henry Glover , Syd Nathan

Size : 142 MB
Bitrate : 320


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