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The Jeff Healey Band ‎– Hell To Pay (1990)

2018-04-02T14:39:53Z

The Jeff Healey Band ‎– Hell To Pay (1990)


1 	Full Circle 	
2 	I Think I Love You Too Much 	
3 	I Can't Get My Hands On You 	
4 	How Long Can A Man Be Strong 	
5 	Let It All Go 	
6 	Hell To Pay 	
7 	While My Guitar Gently Weeps 	
8 	Something To Hold On To 	
9 	How Much 	
10 	Highway Of Dreams 	
11 	Life Beyond The Sky

Backing Vocals – Kat Dyson, Sass Jordan
Bass, Backing Vocals – Joe Rockman
Drums – Tom Stephen
Keyboards – Paul Shaffer
Lead Vocals, Guitar – Jeff Healey 
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Organ [Hammond B3] – Bobby Whitlock (1,3,4,5)
Backing Vocals, Guitar – Mark Knopfler (2)
Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar – George Harrison, Jeff Lynne (7)

In this record, Healey went more in a rock direction, and the result is a record I absolutely love. I first heard it 16 years ago when I was learning to play guitar. I was into metal stuff like Marty Friedman's 'Dragon's Kiss' and early Malmsteen records. Basically, I was an heavy metal guitar player. But I'd listen to any good music and this record by Healey floored me from the first second I have heard it. I immediately recognized a truly expert and brilliant guitarist in this record. And after so many years, I am still of the same opinion. A nice variety of moods and tracks, where Healey showcasts his talent for nice, well-structured songs and stupefying guitar solos. If you'd like to hear a cd when you drive your Chevrolet car or Harley Davidson bike with your girlfriend, this record is better than perfect. Also, guitarists like Mark Knopfler and George Harrison play in the record too. A classic. You can't afford not to own this brilliant cd. ---amazon.com

A sorely disappointing follow up to the wonderful debut album See the Light. It is not that this album is overly bad, but I think I speak for many Jeff Healey fans when I say I was expecting a lot more from his second album. Hell to Pay is far more conservative than I was expecting. These eleven tracks are all very radio-friendly emphasizing a vocal driven, verse-chorus-verse style coupled with Healey guitar solos. These solos, although technically impressive, fall somewhat flat in delivery. Part of the problem is the fact that he is a better performer than an entertainer, delivering in concert but lacking energy in his albums. This was one of the issues I mention when listening to See the Light but this is even more amplified on Hell to Pay. With the exception of the unique Healey sound, there is just too much 'cookie-cutter' blues rock here to warrant anything above an fair rating.

As with their debut, the group performs a John Hiatt track, "Let It All Go." Unfortunately, the results are not as favorable as "Confidence Man" or "Angel Eyes." Hell to Pay does slightly beat See the Light in one category; original material. There are six original Healey creations here and unlike before, the other two band members play a key role in writing this music. Perhaps this is why there is a decrease in musical quality? The highlights of this album are tracks seven, eight, and nine. The group's cover of "While My Guitar Gently Sleeps" did take a few listens to appreciate, but I have come around. I think the biggest obstacle with this track is Healey's vocals. I have become so accustomed to hearing the Beatles do this track that Jeff's vocals sounded too foreign at first. However, I have grown to tolerate the singing efforts and have really enjoyed the added life that he brings to the guitar part. Jeff's attention to technique and his unorthodox style of playing boost the instrumentation to new levels. Also, George Harrison adds backing vocals to this track. "Something to Hold On To" is the only original track that I really enjoyed. It is not quite as overly friendly and predictable as some of the other blues rock tracks, especially on the first half of the album. The same can be said about the ninth track, "How Much."

For as average as this album sounds to me, it does have its moments. The solos often seem too constrained and I do wish for a more primal approach, but I still find enjoyment in listening to them. Some of his bends he rips out are absurd and as with See the Light, he offers some great vibratos. This is nowhere close to essential blues rock material, but fans of Jeff Healey may find some enjoyment. ---Rocky_Sullivan, rateyourmusic.com

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Jeff Healey - House on Fire (2013)

2016-10-31T16:11:54Z

Jeff Healey - House on Fire (2013)

  
01. House On Fire
02. Who's Been Sleepin' In My Bed
03. You Go Your Way (I'll Go Mine)
04. All The Way
05. We've Got Tonite
06. Bish Bang Boof
07. Too Late Now
08. Face Up
09. Adam Raised A Cain
10. Daze Of The Night
11. Joined At The Heart

Jeff Healey – guitar, vocals
Joe Rockman – bass, backing vocals
Tom Stephen – drums

There have been plenty of posthumous Jeff Healey releases, but 2013's House on Fire: Demos and Rarities excavates unheard material from the prime of the Jeff Healey Band: the years of 1992 and 1998, when Healey was signed to a major label and regularly made the album rock charts. Healey's biggest hits arrived right at the turn of the '90s -- "Angel Eyes," his only Billboard Top 10 or Top 40 hit, appeared in 1989 -- and by the time Feel This appeared in 1992, his chart success started to diminish but he was still kicking out solid modern blues-rock. Often, the material that was cut from Feel This and its all-covers 1995 sequel Cover to Cover was slightly looser and wilder than what made the finished album, finding Healey indulging his love for swing jazz (the instrumental "Bish Bang Boof"), rocking a little harder ("Daze of the Night"), and choosing more interesting covers than the barroom standards that littered Cover to Cover (Bob Seger's "We've Got Tonight," Springsteen's "Adam Raised a Cain"; take note that "You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine" is not a Dylan cover). Some of this still drifts into somewhat generic major-label blues-rock, where the neon gloss of the production undermines Healey's chops, but nothing here is embarrassing, it's all of piece with his Arista records, and it's a worthwhile odds and sods for the dedicated. --- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

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The Jeff Healey Band - Full Circle: The Live Anthology (2011)

2016-10-02T12:30:49Z

The Jeff Healey Band - Full Circle: The Live Anthology (2011)

Disc 1 - Live at the Montreal Jazz Fest 1989

01. The Better It Gets
02. I'm Tore Down
03. My Little Girl
04. Blue Jean Blues
05. Confidence Man
06. I Need To Be Loved
07. When the Night Comes FallingFrom the Sky
08. Angel Eyes
09. Roadhouse Blues
10. Hide Away
11. That's What They Say

Disc 2 - Live at Hard Rock Toronto 1995

01. I Got a Line On You
02. Stop Breakin' Down Blues
03. As the Years Go Passing By
04. Yer Blues
05. Stuck In the Middle With You
06. Evil (is Going On)
07. Angel
08. See the Light

Jeff Healey was an astounding and varied talent as a singer, guitarist, and, later in his career, as a trumpet player, and it's difficult to imagine an artist quite like him. Blind from eye cancer since the age of one, he drew attention as a maverick guitar player (he played his Stratocaster on his lap, which allowed him to attack and bend the strings in a totally unique style; at his best, he roared and soared as well as anybody ever has on the instrument). This four-disc set (three CDs and a DVD) features Healey and his crackerjack band live in three separate concerts, and it makes clear what a powerful and empowering performer he was on-stage. The first disc catches the Jeff Healey Band blazing through an 11-song set at the 1989 Montreal Jazz Festival, with the second disc capturing a set from the St. Gallen Open Air Festival in Switzerland from 1991 (the performance was filmed and makes up the DVD included here), and the third disc presents a 1995 stage set from the Hard Rock in Toronto. These live shows reveal the obvious: the Jeff Healey Band was an explosive and exciting blues rock bar band (much like the role they played in the movie Roadhouse) with a maverick virtuoso guitarist at the center of things. It worked in the movie. It worked pretty much everywhere. --- Steve Leggett, allmusic.com

Full Circle: The Live Anthology is the second title in Convexe Entertainment's series of archival Jeff Healey Band releases. On June 14, 2011, the label released The Jeff Healey Band Live At Grossman's - 1994, a live album featuring a previously unheard performance from the band at the height of their career, recorded live at Toronto's Grossman's Tavern.

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Jeff Healey - It's Tight Like That (2006)

2011-11-15T19:33:07Z

Jeff Healey - It's Tight Like That (2006)


1.Bugle Call Rag
2.Sing You Sinners				play
3.Basin Street
4.Little Girl
5.Someday Sweetheart
6.Dark Town Strutters Ball		play
7.Confessin'
8.Keep It To Yourself
9.Sheik Of Araby, The
10.Going Up The River
11.It's Tight Like That

Personnel:
Jeff Healey: Guitar, Trumpet, Producer, Vocals
Jesse Barksdale: Guitar
Andy Krehm: Mastering
Colin Bray: Bass
Chris Barber: Trombone, Vocals, Guest Appearance

In the United States, the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties yielded a brand of upbeat jazz saturated with sexual innuendo and heedlessness. Across the northern border, Jeff Healey, a Canadian blues-rock guitarist, felt the significance of this traditional jazz. In his latest outing, he and his eight-piece band, the Jazz Wizards, conjur up some old magic.

Healey, who has been blind since infancy, plays the trumpet vivaciously on the earlier pieces. "Bugle Call Rag best displays his effervescent control over the brass instrument as he kicks the album off with a quick-stepping call to arms. Sometimes he switches to the guitar, supporting brass and reed solos with an eccentric dexterity.

Chris Barber, an established British jazz trombonist, guest stars on the album, but he is most endearing when he provides vocals on "Basin Street Blues (a Spencer Williams song made famous by Louis Armstrong) and his own "Goin' Up the River. Barber's voice feels silky without being entirely mellifluous, and even his meandering trombone solo in the former song is honeyed with joviality. On the latter tune, he walks the line of thoughtful doldrums, his vulnerability permeating the atmosphere, but Healey's climactic trumpeting and Gary Scriven's sweeping drumming maintain the record's buoyancy.

Healey also puts his voice to work on several songs, and though the coarseness of his baritone is to be expected of a blues crooner, it falls seamlessly into place and adds a contemporary texture to the standards. Even when his voice cracks at the start of "Someday Sweetheart, he follows through and the audience falls in love with his sympathetic tone.

Most of the tunes were performed live at Hugh's Room, a folk venue in Toronto, and since each song was always brimming with vim—upbeat melodies nestled between occasionally seductive blues—boisterous applause always followed. The octet produced a sound so clean that if it wasn't for the ovations, one would not know they were performing live. In contrast, there is a multi-dimensional quality that makes the band's camaraderie, or as Healey calls it, "musical interaction, palpable. Throughout, Healey and Barber uphold the idée fixe, a fast and loose frivolity that dominated both '20s jazz and this album. ---Ivana Ng, allaboutjazz.com

I have been a fan of Jeff Healey since the 80's. I am pleased that his "new" venture into Jazz and Blues finally got an album available in the US. Jeff is great on the trumpet, his guitar (as always) is fantastic, and his vocals are enjoyable. While I am not a fan of the trombone the fiddler with the Jazz Wizards was a surprise and is a lot of fun. If you are a Jeff Healey fan and like Jazz and Blues I would recommend adding this to your collection. --- J. Behn "mercyming" (Seattle, WA)

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Jeff Healey – Live At Healey’s – Thursday Night Recording (2003)

2011-10-31T19:41:27Z

Jeff Healey – Live At Healey’s – Thursday Night Recording (2003)


01. World Gone Crazy
02. Kind Hearted Woman
03. House Of The Rising Sun
04. Feelin Alright					play
05. The Sun Is Shining
06. Sexy Ida
07. Back O'Town Blues
08. Old Man Mose
09. Cigarette
10. She Loves My Automobile
11. Frankenstein					play
12. Voodoo Child

Jeff Healey – guitar, vocals
Dave Murphy – keyboards
Dan Nordermeer – guitar, vocals
Alec Fraser – bass
Al Webster – drums

Live At Healey’s: The Thursday Night Recordings is a small press independent release featuring some of the great jams at Jeff’s Toronto nightclub, Healey’s. ---jeffhealey.com

Norman Jeffrey "Jeff" Healey (March 25, 1966 – March 2, 2008) was a blind Canadian jazz and blues-rock vocalist and guitarist who attained musical and personal popularity, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s.

Healey was an avid record collector and amassed a collection of well over 30,000 78 rpm records. He had, from time to time, hosted a CBC Radio program entitled My Kind of Jazz, in which he played records from his vast vintage jazz collection. He hosted a program with a similar name on Toronto jazz station CJRT-FM; as of 2010, the latter program continues to air in repeats.

He had also been touring with his other group, The Jazz Wizards, playing American hot jazz. (At the time of his death, they had been planning to perform a series of shows in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands in April 2008.)

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 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. (The name came from the 1989 film, Road House, in which Healey appeared.)

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.

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Jeff Healey - Songs From The Road (2009)

2010-08-30T14:41:38Z

Jeff Healey - Songs From The Road (2009)


01 - Jeff Healey - I Think I Love You Too Much 
02 - Jeff Healey - I`m Ready 
03 - Jeff Healey - Stop Breaking Down 
04 - Jeff Healey - Angel Eyes 
05 - Jeff Healey - Come Together 
06 - Jeff Healey - Hoochie Coochie Man 
07 - Jeff Healey - White Room 
08 - Jeff Healey - While My Guitar Gently Weeps 
09 - Jeff Healey - Whipping Post 
10 - Jeff Healey - Teach Your Children Well 
11 - Jeff Healey - Santa, Bring My Baby Back (To Me)

Personnel: 
Jeff Healey (vocals, guitar); 
Dan Noordermeer (vocals, guitar); 
Dave Murphy (vocals, keyboards); 
Alec Fraser (vocals); 
Randy Bachman (guitar); 
Al Webster (drums).

Appearing almost 18 months after his death, Songs from the Road collects highlights from Jeff Healey's 2006 performance at Norway's Nottoden Blues Festival, plus 2007 gigs in London and Toronto (the latter at his hometown club, the Jeff Healey Roadhouse). Songs from the Road paints a good portrait of Healey the road warrior, playing old favorites, both of his own and a wide variety of classic rock and blues artists, including Muddy Waters and two from the Beatles. Healey doesn't surprise here, either in repertoire or attack, but he does satisfy, both as a guitarist and an all-around entertainer, making this collection a nice coda to his career. --- Stephen Thomas Erlewine AllMusic Review

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Jeff Healey - Last Call (2010)

2010-04-09T20:16:08Z

Jeff Healey - Last Call (2010)


01. Holding My Honey's Hand 03:00 
02. Time On My Hands 05:02 
03. The Wild Cat 02:38 
04. You Can't Pull The Wool Over My Eyes 03:01 
05. Deep Purple 04:52 
06. Hong Kong Blues 03:13 
07. Pennies From Heaven 04:00 
08. Autumn In New York 04:48 
09. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter 03:09 
10. Black And Blue Bottom 02:53 
11. Guitar Duet Stomp 03:37 
12. Laura 04:55 
13. Keeping Myself For You 03:57 
14. Some Of These Days 02:47

Jeff Healey (vocals, guitar, trumpet); 
Drew Jurecka (violin); 
Ross Wooldridge (clarinet, piano).

The first two posthumous Jeff Healey albums, Mess of Blues (which appeared only days after his death in 2008 and Songs from the Road (2009), focused on his blues-rock guitar playing, the basis of his renown, even though he had spent much of the last decade of his life performing and recording in the early jazz styles of the first three decades of the 20th century, and often playing the trumpet. Last Call, a studio recording drawn from sessions held in February 2007, returns to the jazz format of previous albums Among Friends, Adventures in Jazzland, and It's Tight Like That. But instead of playing with his band the Jazz Wizards, Healey is accompanied by only two fellow musicians, pianist/clarinetist Ross Wooldridge of that group, and violinist Drew Jurecka. That is, they accompany him when he has any accompaniment at all. Sometimes, Healey is alone, or rather, he is the only musician, even if there are multiple instruments. The closing track, "Some of These Days," features two guitars, trumpet, and vocals, but they're all Healey, overdubbing himself. Annotator Colin Bray, another member of the Jazz Wizards, attests to Healey's love of early jazz, as demonstrated by his extensive collection of 78 rpm records, and, like its predecessors in this vein, Last Call clearly is a labor of love by an aficionado intent on replicating the sound of a musical style he reveres. Nor is it without accomplishment. When Healey and Jurecka dig into the guitar/violin duet "The Wildcat," they sound for all the world like Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, which is exactly what they are aiming for. Healey is a less impressive trumpet player, although he manages to approximate the `20s style he's after. He is also an adequate vocalist, but not really a stylist capable of putting his own stamp on the songs of, say, Hoagy Carmichael ("Hong Kong Blues"), or Bing Crosby ("Pennies from Heaven"). So, like Healey's other jazz albums, Last Call is something more than a busman's holiday, but something less than a major artistic statement. ---William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com

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Jeff Healey Band - Destructive Heart, New York October 1989

2010-01-01T17:25:35Z

Jeff Healey Band - Destructive Heart, New York October 1989


01) Further on up the road
02) My little girl
03) Blue jeans blues 
04) Confidence man 
05) I Need To Be Loved 
06) White room 
07) I See The Light

Jeff Healey – lead vocals, guitar, harmonica
Joe Rockman – bass, backing vocals
Tom Stephen – drums

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Jeff Healey Band – Sound Barrier, Hammersmith Odeon, London 1990

2010-01-01T17:15:04Z

Jeff Healey Band – Sound Barrier, Hammersmith Odeon, London 1990


01. My Little Girl
02. Blue Jean Blues
03. Confidence Man
04. I Think I Love You Too Much
05. How Long Can A Man Be Strong?
06. I Can't Get My Hands On You
07. Full Circle
08. Angel Eyes
09. All Along The Watchtower

Jeff Healey - vocals, guitar 
Joe Rockman - bass 
Tom Stephen – drums

Hammersmith Odeon, London, U.K.
24th September 1990

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