1. Have A Little Faith In Me - The version with the gospel choir doing backing vocals (on The Best of John Hiatt album) is the better of the two versions. Joe Cocker does a decent cover of this song.
2. Memphis In the Meantime - Gregg Allman covered this one.
3. Drive South - A hit for Suzy Bogguss
4. Child Of the Wild Blue Yonder
5. Slow Turning
6. Riding With the King - You've probably heard the hit by B.B. King and Eric Clapton
7. Thing Called Love - One of Bonnie Raitt's biggest hits
8. Master Of Disaster - The North Mississippi Allstars were his backing band on this one.
9. Angel Eyes - The only hit for The Jeff Healey Band
10. Feels Like Rain - Buddy Guy owes his comeback to this John Hiatt song.

Check out:

Drifting, When She Cries, Africa.

If you like:

Jeff Healey, Santana, Toto.

Jeff Healey and his website

I look at you all, see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps.
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps.
I don’t know why nobody told you, how to unfold your love
I don’t know how someone controlled you.
They bought and sold you.

I look at the world, and I notice it’s turning
While my guitar gently weeps.
From every mistake we must surely be learning
And still my guitar gently weeps.
I don’t know how you were diverted
You were perverted too.
I don’t know how you were inverted
No one alerted you.  

I look at you all, see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps.
Look at you all...
Still my guitar gently weeps. 

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Promemoria per me: è uscito l'ultimo lavoro di Paul Gilbert "Silence Followed by A Deafening Roar", si dice composto e suonato da un Paul meno in vena di corbellerie e scherzi (comunque sempre altamente chitarristicamente stupendi) e più maturo, impostato su di una gamma di ricerca eterogenea che passa dal rock classico, al metal con variazioni funk, ispirato ed emozionante su linee d'esecuzione irruenti, sintetizzando la recensione di Chitarre. E chi se lo perde... 

Grazie di tutto vecchio mio, we miss you Jeff.

Barry Adamson - Back to the Cat
Amelia - A Long, Lovely List of Repairs
Beat Union - Disconnected
Tab Benoit - Night Train to Nashville
Bizzy Bone - A Song for You
Blind Melon - For My Friends
Billy Bragg - Mr. Love & Justice
The Cat Empire - So Many Nights
Tony DeMarco - The Sligo Indians
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords
Goldfinger - Hello Destiny
Jeff Healey - Mess of Blues
The Jealous Girlfriends - The Jealous Girlfriends
Juno Reactor - Gods & Monsters
Lettuce - Rage!
Donny Osmond - From Donny... With Love
Ashlee Simpson - Bittersweet World
Sleepercar - West Texas
Chris Standring - Love and Paragraphs
Story of the Year - The Black Swan
Tantric - The End Begins
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
Anna Ternheim - Halfway to Fivepoints
Phil Vassar - Prayer of a Common Man
Whitesnake - Good to be Bad
The White Tie Affair - Walk This Way
Thalia Zedek Band - Liars and Prayers

Melissa Collard sent me a copy of Brad Kay's loving, funny, and beautifully-realized piece about the late Jeff Healey, and it is reprinted here with Brad's permission.  If Brad's name is not familiar to you, he is a wizard cornetist, pianist, jazz scholar and researcher, and composer -- someone you should get to know!  It's also obvious that he is a splendid writer, too.

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I will miss Jeff Healey. He was as singular a human being as has ever lived. Our every encounter was, for me, an exercise in amazement. Others will speak of his great heart and humanity, his unique musicianship (with which I collaborated on several occasions), his modest, "just folks" demeanor, his dry, acerbic wit and sheer intelligence. I would like to speak mostly about his nervous system.

It took knowing Jeff only a short time (starting in the early '90s) before I concluded that his blindness was not a handicap, but an enhancement, which endowed him with almost supernatural powers. Neurologists have shown that when a person is deprived of sight, the visual cortex - fully one-third of the brain - does not lie fallow, but its functions are redistributed to the other senses, especially hearing and touch. Nobody ever demonstrated this kind of synaptic recycling more convincingly than Jeff, whose remaining senses were heightened - and combined! - to a colossal degree. Coupled with his immense and unfailing memory, he seemed to be the very embodiment of human potential, a forerunner of how our species could evolve.

Ironically, he fueled these exotic sensibilities with the worst junk-food diet imaginable - McDonald's, Pizza, Wonder Bread, Coke, Jo-Jo's, Twinkies - a cornucopia of dreck. I witnessed this. In hindsight, I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did!

Jeff and I encountered each other most frequently on the bandstand playing jazz, and in various listening rooms, with our venerable 78-rpm records.

He could identify records by touch alone, abetted by his immaculate, eidetic memory. One night, on a visit to Los Angeles, he flabbergasted Steven Lasker and me with his shellac-detecting prowess. When I handed him a certain 78, he palmed it, probed its edge and surfaces with his fingertips, and said, "Hmm. It's an acoustic Victor - Let's see… number 18457. It's the ODJB - 'Ostrich Walk.' Nice condition, too." A distinct hurl of the gauntlet, this. Steven and I took turns at this new game of "Stump Jeff," pulling increasingly obscure and anomalous records off the shelf. Nothing fazed him. "Well … this is obviously a Columbia product… about 1930, I reckon - but with this matrix -- it's got to be a Clarion. It's "Blue Again" by Ben Selvin, as 'Ford Britten and his Blue Comets'." … "Hmmm - Nice late Paramount - lousy condition - you sonuvabitch! When did you get a Charley Patton?" It went like this for over an hour, until, in a final spasm of esoteric perversity, I pulled out a fabulously rare, freak Gennett Champion release of a Brunswick master, "Cho-King" by the Dixie Serenaders. Jeff palpated the shellac, and cogitated. "Must be a Brunswick." "It's NOT! I crowed, exchanging evil grins with Steven. "Not a Brunswick? This is odd indeed… Are you sure??" "Yep!" More evil grins. A pause. Finally: "Hmmm… Okay. I'm licked. What label is it?" "It's a CHAMPION!" "Oh, of course," said Jeff, not losing a beat. "It's the Dixie Serenaders doing 'Cho-King.'" He retired undefeated, leaving Steven and me blubbering incoherently.

The speed of his thinking kept me in stitches. Another 78 story: Once on eBay, I scored the jazz record find of a lifetime. It was a copy of the incredibly rare 1924 "Naughty Man," by Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra, featuring Louis Armstrong, on the scarce Oriole label. To boot, it was a different take from the three other known copies, making it unique. Of course, I had to phone and tell Jeff, who had just co-produced a three-CD set of the "Complete Louis Armstrong with Fletcher Henderson." The finding of this record "un-completed" it. I craved to keep Jeff dangling on tenterhooks, to savor stretching out the story in excruciating detail. Our actual conversation was:

Me: (excited) "Hey Jeff! Guess what? I won this album of Oriole records on eBay, and…"

Jeff: (instantly) "You're going to tell me you got a copy of 'Naughty Man.'"

Me: (rattled) "Er, well …yes."

Jeff: (half a beat pause) "You sonuvabitch."

Me: (deflated) "Uh, there's more…"

Jeff: (annoyed) "What!?"

Me: (sighing) "It's take 2."

Jeff: (another half-beat) "You sonuvabitch."

End of story.

I visited Jeff in his Mississauga home in 1999 and we spent several days bumming around together. Walking the streets of Toronto with him exploded any idea I had of mincing my steps to match the pace of a blind man. I had to run to keep up with him! He barely touched his cane to the pavement as he hurtled ahead. He even warned me of an oncoming truck, which might have flattened me otherwise. Fame pursued him everywhere we walked. Person after person, on foot and from cars, greeted him as if he were an especially benevolent mayor, who had recently distributed free money. "Hey JEFF!" "We love you, Jeff Healey!!" "Yo, HEALEY!! You RULE, Man!!" The air was thick with goodwill.

One night, there was a gathering of the Toronto 78-collecting Mafia in his basement, with its thirty thousand records. Jeff's records were not kept in sleeves - there were five shelves of naked 78s stretching thirty feet from wall to wall, looking like five branches of the Trans-Canadian oil pipeline running through his basement. When you requested a tune, Jeff would go to a section of pipeline, and in a fluid motion, run his hand across it, and yank out the precise record.

There were nine of us in the basement that night, but only eight chairs. After almost everyone had settled in, Jeff blinked quizzically and said, "Somebody doesn't have a place to sit. Just a minute…" He bounded up the stairs and returned a moment later, brandishing a metal folding chair. Without breaking stride, with inches to spare either way, he marched between the two rows of us who were seated, and placed the chair directly in front of the lone standee. Nobody (but me!) was even slightly alarmed about possibly being clobbered by this reckless blind guy. They had seen Jeff in action too many times to be concerned, or even vaguely impressed, by this demonstration of borderline ESP.

Our last encounter was in September, 2006, when, with Dan Levinson, we played in a benefit concert for the ailing Richard Sudhalter, in New York. Though Jeff was now in treatment for cancer, he was the same fun-loving, serene, brilliant, unflappable guy. He was in great musical form that night, playing hot trumpet and his unique "piano style" guitar. I felt sure this disease was a temporary annoyance and he'd be around forever. At this juncture, I'm glad he was around at all. I will miss Jeff Healey.

Brad Kay

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Ian Gillan - Vocalist của Deep Purple

Theo thông tin từ CBC News, IAN GILLAN, tay ca sĩ của nhóm DEEP PURPLE, sẽ tham gia vào hai buổi hòa nhạc trong một chương trình tưởng nhớ tay guitar tài năng người Canada JEFF HEALEY - đã mất vào ngày 02-03-2008.

Sự kiện đầu tiên được diễn ra vào ngày 03-05-2008, cùng với sự tham gia của IAN còn có sự xuất hiện của JACK BRUCE, ca sĩ kiêm bassist của nhóm CREAM. Nội dung của sự kiện đầu tiên này chủ yếu nói về những đóng góp của JEFF HEALEY đối với nhạc rock.

Vào ngày 04-05-2008, sự kiện thứ hai sẽ được tổ chức để nói về tình yêu, niềm đam mê của JEFF đối với nhac JAZZ và cũng như về sự nghiệp của tay guitar quá cố này. Buổi biểu diễn này sẽ có sự tham gia của Marty Grosz, Brad Kay và Vince Giordano.

Jeff Healey - Tay guitar tài năng ( Ảnh: Canadian Press )

Tất cả tiền thu được từ các sự kiện này sẽ được đóng góp vào một quĩ từ thiện có tên Daisy's Eye Cancer Fund, dành cho các trẻ em mắc căn bệnh retinoblastoma, một loại ung thư giác mạc.

]]> http://artruch.wordpress.com/?p=908 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:10:44 +0000 Art http://artruch.el.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/cd-of-the-week-mess-of-blues-by-jeff-healey/ I just had a first listen to the late Jeff Healey's final CD, Mess of Blues. I really wanted to like this one but sadly it comes very close to being a real mess.

This was Healey's first Blues/Rock record in several years (he had learned to play the trumpet and immersed himself in Jazz). And since this is a CD of cover songs (and not particularly good ones at that), you'd be forgiven if you thought the record company rushed this out to capitalize on the news of Healey's untimely death. Fortunately that is not the case. This CD was planned by Healey as his return to the music that first brought him to public attention. But I almost wish we could blame the record company for rushing it out.

Not that there are some good points. There are. Healey's guitar playing is as sharp as it ever was, there's not a trumpet to be heard and his voice sounds strong and clear for a guy who had just undergone major lung surgery.

But most of the song performances are only competent at best. A few are somewhat reminiscent of Healey's best known work but others fall noticeably short: I just don't see a need for "Jambalaya" to be recorded again. Especially not this way. "The Weight" and "Shake Rattle and Roll" also sound particularly uninspired to me.

On the plus side, "Sittin' On Top of The World" is as good as any recent version I've heard. It is easily the best performance on the CD.

As a reintroduction to the type of music that made Healey famous, this record would have served fairly well. After all, Healey's best known song was a cover. But Mess of Blues doesn't do nearly as well as an end to a phenomenal career.

If you're a huge Healey fan, you have to get this. But if you're not familiar with his music (and it pains me to say this) get one of his compilations or his 1988 debut, See the Light instead.

Bildquelle: Wikipedia, Released into the public domain by the author.

O Jeff Healey, τυφλός κιθαρίστας των blues, πέθανε σε ηλικία 41 ετών έπειτα από μακρόχρονη μάχη με τον καρκίνο. Ο Healey έπασχε από την αρρώστια αυτή από την παιδική του ηλικία. Μάλιστα έχασε την όρασή του εξαιτίας αυτής. Παρ'όλα αυτά έμαθε μόνος του να παίζει κιθάρα κι αποδείχτηκε μεγάλο ταλέντο. Η παγκόσμια επιτυχία ήρθε με το άλμπουμ 'See The Light' που έγινε πλατινένιο. Ο Healey ήταν επίσης φανατικός συλλέκτης βινυλίων, είχε περίπου 30.000 στην κατοχή του. Με αυτά είχε ξεκινήσει και τη δική του ραδιοφωνική εκπομπή. Ο θάνατός του ήρθε μόλις ένα μήνα πριν τη κυκλοφορία του νέου άλμπουμ του, 'Mess Of Blues', έπειτα από 8 χρόνια.

Ο Healey πέθανε στη ιδιαίτερη πατρίδα του, το Τορόντο, αφήνοντας πίσω του σύζυγο και δύο παιδιά.

Από εμένα, έναν ταπεινό blogger, rest in peace Jeff Healey.

O Jeff Healey, τυφλός κιθαρίστας των blues, πέθανε σε ηλικία 41 ετών έπειτα από μακρόχρονη μάχη με τον καρκίνο. Ο Healey έπασχε από την αρρώστια αυτή από την παιδική του ηλικία. Μάλιστα έχασε την όρασή του εξαιτίας αυτής. Παρ'όλα αυτά έμαθε μόνος του να παίζει κιθάρα κι αποδείχτηκε μεγάλο ταλέντο. Η παγκόσμια επιτυχία ήρθε με το άλμπουμ 'See The Light' που έγινε πλατινένιο. Ο Healey ήταν επίσης φανατικός συλλέκτης βινυλίων, είχε περίπου 30.000 στην κατοχή του. Με αυτά είχε ξεκινήσει και τη δική του ραδιοφωνική εκπομπή. Ο θάνατός του ήρθε μόλις ένα μήνα πριν τη κυκλοφορία του νέου άλμπουμ του, 'Mess Of Blues', έπειτα από 8 χρόνια.

Ο Healey πέθανε στη ιδιαίτερη πατρίδα του, το Τορόντο, αφήνοντας πίσω του σύζυγο και δύο παιδιά.

Από εμένα, έναν ταπεινό blogger, rest in peace Jeff Healey.

Straffe gitarist die ons veel te vroeg verlaten heeft. Hier samen met de al evenzeer te vroeg betreurde Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Sam Elliott may want to visit an oncologist.

3-3-2008 (AP); Nhạc sĩ, ca sĩ mù người canada, Jeff Healey, đã ra đi sau một thời gian dài chống chọi với căn bệnh ung thư ở tuổi 41. Jeff đã ra đi vào tối chủ nhật, 2-3-2008 tại một bệnh viện ở Toronto - St. Joseph's Health Centre, theo như lời một người bạn, Colin Bray, người đã cùng với gia đình của Jeff khi cây guitar này ra đi. Jeff Healey bắt đầu nổi tiếng sau khi ra đời album "See the Ligth" trong đó có bài hit "Angle eye" vào năm 1988.

Healey đã chiến đấu với căn bệnh ung thư võng mạc từ khi anh ấy lên 1 tuổi, căn bệnh đã cướp đi ánh sáng của Jeff. Jeff bắt đầu chơi guitar khi lên 3 tuổi với một cách chơi rất đặc biệt, đặt guitar nằm ngang. Cách chơi guitar đặc biệt cộng với chất giọng Blue trời phú, Jeff trở thành một tài năng âm nhạc sáng giá cùng vớiGeorge Harrison, B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

"Tôi không nghĩ rằng bất kì ai trong chúng ta có thể nghĩ là Jeff đã mất", Bray đã nói như thế, Bray tiếp tục "Chúng tôi nghĩ Anh ấy lại có thể khỏe lại như mọi lần khác". Healey đã trải qua hàng loạt cuộc phẩu thuật để cắt bỏ những khối u di căng ở phổi và chân trong suốt mấy năm qua. Bray và Gary Scriven, thành viên trong ban nhạc của Jeff Healey hồi tưởng về anh ấy như là một người luôn đem lại cảm hứng và sự hài hước cho ban nhạc.
Tình yêu thật sự của Jeff là nhạc Jazz, điều này thể hiện qua 3 album gần đây nhất của Anh. Jeff đã ra đi trước khi kịp phát hành Album "Mess of Blues"một album nhạc rock sau 8 năm, dự định sẽ phát hành vào ngày 22-4-2008 ở Bắc Mỹ.
Jeff có thể chống chọi đến ngày hôm nay đó là nhở vào gia đình nhỏ của mình, Christie, vợ anh và 2 đứa con.

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* Các bạn có thể mua các Albums của Jeff Healey từ [LNC] - Rock CD Shop

Cover to Cover (1995 - 20 tracks)

Feel This (2000 -14 tracks)

Get Me Some (2000 - 12 tracks)

See The Light (1988 - 8 tracks)

The very Best of Jeff Healy Band (2001 - 18 tracks)

Hoje fiquei sabendo que o guitarrista Jeff Healey faleceu no domingo, dia 02. Desde o nascimento Jeff lutava contra um tipo raro de câncer. Ainda pequeno perdeu a visão por isso. Seu talento superou a doença. Surgiu para o mundo com essa cover aí de cima, uma música dos Beatles. Pra mim seu melhor álbum é justamente um cheio de cover, "cover to cover" de 1995, deixo um link para o torrent.

Ele tocou com vários gênios, BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, George Harrison, Eric Clapton. Mas deve ser mais conhecido por ter feito uma participação no filme "Matador de Aluguel" (Road House) com Patrick Swayze. Impressionava a todos pelo seu jeito peculiar de tocar a guitarra, apoiada no colo. O público delirava ao vê-lo ao vivo levantar e fazer os solos de pé, pulado desajeitado, como vemos no final do clipe. Já veio tocar aqui em São Paulo e fui assisti-lo um vez.

Aparentemente ele deixou um novo álbum pronto, que deve ser lançado em breve.

March 3, 2008

HENDRIX DRUMMER BUDDY MILES DIES AT 60

BLIND GUITARIST JEFF HEALEY DIES OF EYE CANCER, AGED 41

BOY BAND MOGUL, LOU PEARLMAN, ADMITS $300 MILLION FRAUD - FACES 25 YEARS IN PRISION

AMY WINEHOUSE CLEARED OF WITNESS TAMPERING

ROBERT PLANT REJECTS $200 MILLION OFFER FOR LED ZEPPELIN TOUR

VAN HALEN POSTPONES TOUR AS EDDIE VAN HALEN UNDERGOES MEDICAL TESTS

NINE INCH NAILS RELEASES INTERNET ALBUM - FREE ON BITTORRENT

FACEBOOK TO LAUNCH MUSIC SERVICE PROGRAM LIKE ITUNES?

MICK JAGGER ASSASSINATION PLOT BY HELLS ANGELS REVEALED

MAGAZINE REVEALS LIST OF SONGS USED DURING TORTURE SESSIONS IN AMERICAN MILITARY PRISIONS

DJ MARCO V CANCELS SYRIA GIG AFTER DEATH THREATS

JANET JACKSON RETURNS TO TOP THE BILLBOARD CHARTS

JAMMYS TO HONOR PHISH WITH LIFTIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, WILL THEY PLAY?

MAXIM REVIEWS NEW BLACK CROWES ALBUM WITHOUT LISTENING TO IT - PANS IT

MAXIM APOLOGIZES TO THE BLACK CROWES

ERIC CLAPTON ASKED TO PLAY IN NORTH KOREA

KEITH RICHARDS TO BE NEW FACE OF LOUIS VUITTON

EVER WONDER WHAT JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH LOOKED LIKE?

THE STOOGES SET TO COVER MADONNA AT 2008'S ROCK N' ROLL HALL OF FAME CEREMONY

FESTIVAL NEWS & ANNOUNCED LINEUPS:

BONNAROO: PEARL JAM, METALLICA, KANYE WEST, CHRIS ROCK, JACK JOHNSON

COACHELLA: ROGER WATERS, PORTISHEAD, JACK JOHNSON

EDGEFEST: STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, LINKIN PARK

HIGH SIERRA: BOB WEIR & RATDOG, MICHAEL FRANTI, MIKE GORDON, RAILROAD EARTH

LANGERADO MUSIC FESTIVAL: BEASTIE BOYS, R.E.M., PHIL LESH, 311

OUTSIDE LANDS: RADIOHEAD, TOM PETTY, JACK JOHNSON

PITCHFORK: SONIC YOUTH, YOKO ONO, CAT POWER, IRON & WINE

ROTHBURY: DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, WIDESPREAD PANIC, JOHN MAYER, 311, PHIL LESH

SASQUATCH!: THE CURE, DEATH CAB, R.E.M., MODEST MOUSE

TELLURIDE BLUEGRASS: RYAN ADAMS, SAM BUSH, ANI DIFRANCO, YMSB, RICKY SKAGGS

WAKARUSA: FLAMING LIPS, EMMYLOU HARRIS, CAKE, LEFTOVER SALMON

10,000 LAKES: PHIL LESH, FLAMING LIPS, FRANTI, GEORGE CLINTON

ERIC CLAPTON ANNOUNCES N. AMERICAN TOUR DATES

TOM WAITS PLANNING SUMMER TOUR

RNID TELS MUSIC FANS TO WEAR EAR PLUGS AT CONCERTS - NINE OUT OF 10 REGULAR CONCERT GOERS ALREADY HAVE HARING DAMAGE

PAVEMENT HINTS AT REUNITING IN 2009

LISTEN: DEVOTCHKA'S NEW SINGLE FROM UPCOMING ALBUM, THE CLOCKWISE WITNESS

LISTEN: DAWN LANDES NEW SINGLE, "MONEY IN THE BANK"

COLDPLAY WORKED WITH PRODUCER BRIAN ENO ON NEW ALBUM - DUE IN MAY

NEW DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE ALBUM, NARROW STAIRS, DUE MAY 13

NEW GNARLS BARKLEY VIDEO BANNED

JOHN MELLENCAMP, STEPHEN KING TEAM UP FOR MUSICAL

MICHAEL JACKSON IN DANGER OF LOSING NEVERLAND RANCH

AIRLINE OWNER ORDERED TO PAY $12 MILLION FOR SECRETLY VIDEOTAPING TAPING MICHAEL JACKSON

SCORSESE TO MAKE BOB MARLEY DOCUMENTARY

MARLEY WIDOW EXECUTIVE PRODUCING HER OWN DOC - WANTS LAUREN HILL TO PLAY HER

RAPPER RAKIM SET TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM ON MARCH 4

RAPPER THE GAME BEGINS JAIL SENTENCE

KID ROCK PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO BATTERY CHARGES

CAT POWER, NORAH JONES, AMOS LEE, OTHERS ON MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS SOUNDTRACK

MADONNA REVEALS NEW ALBUM TITLE

Some Sad news to report. Canadian Artist Jeff Healey has died.

He lost a long battle with cancer.

Here's my favorite song from Jeff. "Angel Eyes":

This song, was supposed to be played, had I married my ex-girlfriend. Yes. we were that close to getting married.

Anyhow, the marriage never happened. Her and I split up.

He will be missed. RIP Jeff.

Here's a message from his Website:

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for all your support and loving emails during this time. Jeff was always so happy to know that he was loved and respected, and that his music touched so many people.

Jeff's family would greatly appreciate a donation in his memory to Daisy's Eye Cancer Research Fund to support their efforts to discover a cure.

This was a cause that Jeff had supported for many years, and for which he played numerous benefit performances. Donations may be made through the organization's website: www.daisyseyecancerfund.ca.

Sincerely,

Sarah French, Richard Flohil and the Healey Family

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 I really liked Jeff Healey and I'm sad he's gone.

:(

Although he lost his site to retinoblastoma at at just eight months, Jeff Healey would grow to become one of the greatest blues guitarists the world had ever seen. He could definitely hold his own alongside such greats as Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Buddy Guy. Beginning at age three, Healey would master the unusual style of playing his guitar flat on his lap. He would start his career in various jazz bands but would later dabble in blues rock with the release of his 1988 platinum debut album, See The Light. Throughout the years, he amassed a huge personal record collection that included a reported 25,000+ 78s, mostly made up of his true love, Jazz. Healey died of cancer on March 2, 2008, just a few weeks before the release of his tenth album, Mess Of Blues, his first rock album in eight years.