Jeff Healey Band
| The Jeff Healey Band | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Blues , blues rock |
| founding | 1986 |
| Website | http://www.jeffhealeyband.com/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Jeff Healey † | |
| Joe Rockman | |
| Tom Stephen | |
The Jeff Healey Band was formed in 1986 by Jeff Healey , who was blind from the age of one, Joe Rockman and Tom Stephen. The Canadian band played a tradition-conscious blues rock.
Band history
In 1988 the debut album See The Light was released, which immediately sold very well. The single Angel Eyes , written by John Hiatt , made it to the top 5 in the US charts. The title track penned by Jeff Healey was one of the band's live classics.
In 1989 the band starred as a rock band in the film Road House with Patrick Swayze . Jeff Healey played the blind guitarist Cody.
George Harrison , Mark Knopfler and Jeff Lynne were guest stars on the 1990 production Hell to Pay , which was strongly blues-rock-oriented. On the follow-up album Feel This (1992), critics complained that it contained too many clichés.
The Jeff Healey Band was most successful when they covered pieces by other songwriters. Consequently, the album Cover to Cover was released in 1995 . It features cover versions of rock songs suggested to the band by fans, including Badge by Cream , Communication Breakdown by Led Zeppelin and Stuck in the Middle with You by Stealers Wheel .
In 1999 the compilation The Master Hits: Jeff Healey Band was published.
In 2000 Get Me Some came out on the market, where the band can be heard again with the usual blues. In 2005, Live at Montreux was the band's last album.
Jeff Healey died on Sunday evening, March 2nd, 2008, at the age of 41, in St. Joseph's Health Center Hospital in Toronto, the city of his birth, of complications from retinoblastoma, a malignant tumor on the retina. He suffered from the disease throughout his life, and it also led to his early blindness. In the last few years of his life, the tumor metastasized to Jeff Healy's lungs and legs. He left behind his wife and two children.
Eight years after his death, in 2016, the album Heal My Soul was released. This album contained 12 previously unreleased recordings by Jeff Healey and his band.
Discography
For chart positions, see: Jeff Healey # Discography
- See the Light (1988; Arista)
- Road House - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1989; Arista), contains songs by other artists as well as four pieces by the Jeff Healey Band
- Hell to Pay (1990; Arista)
- Feel This (1992; Arista)
- Cover to Cover (1995; Arista)
- The Very Best of the Jeff Healey Band (1998; BMG), Greatest Hits Compilation
- Master Hits (1999; Arista), greatest hits compilation of the Arista years
- Get Me Some (2000; Forte)
- The Best of the Jeff Healey Band - Original Hits (2001; Paradiso), greatest hits compilation, contains the same songs as BMG's 1998 album
- Platinum & Gold Collection (2004; Arista), greatest hits compilation of the Arista years
- Live at Montreux 1999 (2005; Eagle), also released on DVD
- Legacy: Volume One (2008; Arbor), Canadian greatest hits compilation, includes bonus DVD with live recordings
- Live At Grossman's - 1994 (2011; Eagle Records)
- As the years go passing by (2013, InAkustik Records)
- Heal My Soul (2016; Provogue)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry Yates2018-05-04T00: 24: 00 123Z Blues: Heal My Soul: The story of the great 'lost' Jeff Healey album. Retrieved July 31, 2019 .