The Jeff Healey Band
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Biography
Blinded by a rare form of eye cancer as a baby, Jeff Healey defied the odds to become one of the most talented hard rock guitarists of the late 1980s. Learning to play at just three-years-old, he developed a style of sitting down with the instrument laid across his lap and went on to form The Jeff Healey Band with bassist Joe Rockman and drummer Tom Stephen in 1985, performing blues-rock standards in local Toronto bars. Discovered by guitar legends Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert Collins, they signed with Arista for their major label debut See the Light (1988) and scored huge hits with the singles "Angel Eyes" and "Hideaway" (both nominated for Grammys). The band appeared in and recorded the soundtrack for the Patrick Swayze film Road House (1989) and produced the albums Hell to Pay (1990) and Feel This (1995) as Healey's searing guitar playing gradually became the stuff of legend. He recorded a cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with George Harrison and played alongside the likes of Dire Straits, Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy before teaching himself trumpet and releasing the traditional jazz albums Among Friends (2002) and It's Tight Like That (2006). Healey died in March 2008 from cancer aged 41 with his final posthumous album Mess of Blues (2009) proving a fitting farewell.
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- Angel Eyes by The Jeff Healey Band
- Who's Been Sleepin' In My Bed by Jeff Healey
- Highway 49 by The Jeff Healey Band
- Don't Let Your Chance Go By
- Shapes Of Things by The Jeff Healey Band
- I Tried
- Stuck In The Middle With You
- When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
- My Kinda Lover by The Jeff Healey Band
- I Got A Line On You
- Further On Up the Road by The Jeff Healey Band
- Dust My Broom by The Jeff Healey Band
- Leave The Light On by The Jeff Healey Band
- Cruel Little Number by The Jeff Healey Band
- Lost In Your Eyes by The Jeff Healey Band
- Baby's Lookin' Hot
- Macon Georgia Blue by The Jeff Healey Band
- House That Love Built by The Jeff Healey Band
- Too Late Now by Jeff Healey
- Bish Bang Boof by Jeff Healey
- Adam Raised A Cain by Jeff Healey
- Face Up by Jeff Healey
- Full Circle by The Jeff Healey Band
- House On Fire by Jeff Healey
