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Jeff Healey: Hell to Pay

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Label: Arista Records
Released: 1990
Time:
 49:56
Category: Blues
Producer(s): Ed Stasium
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jeffhealeyband.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2000.09.27
Price in €: 6,99



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[1] Full Circle (Healey/Rockman/Stephen) - 4:11
[2] I Think I Love You Too Much (Knopfler) - 6:27
[3] I Can't Get My Hands on You (Healey) - 3:40
[4] How Long Can a Man Be Strong (Cropper/Scott) - 4:25
[5] Let It All Go (Hiatt) - 3:42
[6] Hell to Pay (Healey/Rockman/Stephen) - 3:53
[7] While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Harrison) - 5:13
[8] Something to Hold on To (Healey) - 3:56
[9] How Much (Sutton/Tate) - 4:46
[10] Highway of Dreams (Healey/Rockman/Stephen) - 4:47
[11] Life Beyond the Sky (Healey/Rockman/Stephen) - 4:56

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The Jeff Healey Band:
Jeff Healey - Guitar, Vocals
Tom Stephen - Drums
Joe Rockman - Bass Guitar, Background Vocals

George Harrison - Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocals on [7]
Jeff Lynne - Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocals on [7]
Mark Knopfler - Guitar, Background Vocals on [2]
Paul Shaffer - Keyboards
Bobby Whitlock - Hammond B3 Organ on [2], [4]

Sass Jordan - Background Vocals
Kathleen Dyson - Background Vocals

Paul Hamingson - Engineer, Assistant Mixing
Simon Pressey - Assistant Engineer
Ed Stasium - Mixing
Michael White - Assistant Engineer
Maude Gilman - Art Direction
Dimo Safari - Photography
Mitchel Cohen - A&R

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Der blonde Blinde hat den gewaltigen Erfolg seines Erstlings See The Light hervorragend verkraftet. Der Nachfolger bleibt dem Blues treu, aber Jeff Healey stellt seine phänomenale Gitarrentechnik, die Vergleiche zu Jimi Hendrix provoziert, in etwas härtere, Mainstream-orientierte Dienste. Das mag den Puristen sauer aufstoßen - Rock-Fans werden sich um so mehr an den Gastauftritten von Mark Knopfler und George Harrison freuen, der in seinem von Jeff genial adaptierten While My Guitar Gently Weeps neidlos mitsingt.

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Der blinde Gitarrist und Sänger Jeff Healey unterscheidet sich von den anderen populären Musikern an der amerikanischen Blues & Rock-Front dadurch, daß seine Genrevariante weder so elegant wie die von Robert Cray noch so "erdig" wie die von Stevie Ray Vaughan ist. Healeys Trio sucht sein Heil weniger in einer Rhythm & Blues-Authentizität, die man Cray und Vaughan in Maßen zugestehen muß, als vielmehr in druckvollem und hitparadengefälligem Gitarrenrock. Daß das Erfolg haben kann, hat die Band mit "Angel Eyes", dem US-Top-10-Hit vom 1988er Debütalbum "See The Light", bereits bewiesen. Die damals vorgelegte gemäßigte Gangart wird auf der neuen Platte einzig in "How Long Can A Man Be Strong" reproduziert, ansonsten geht's mit Volldampf voraus: Peitschende Rhythmusakkorde über treibenden Riffs wechseln mit ausgedehnten virtuosen Gitarrensoli, in denen nicht selten der selige James Marshall Hendrix grüßen läßt. Mit Zitaten verfährt die Jeff Healey Band generell recht großzügig, und so hört man etwa die Doors in "Highway Of Dreams" oder das "Jumpin'Jack Flash" der Stones im Intro des Titelsongs. Die Eigenkompositionen der Bandmitglieder klingen bei aller Fulminanz der Interpretation eher konven- tionell, überdurchschnittliche Qualität mag der Rezensent nur John Hiatts "Let It All Go" attestieren. Der mit Abstand beste Song des Albums allerdings trägt bereits 22 Jahre auf dem Buckel: George Harrisons "While My Guitar Gentley Weeps" erfährt hier eine exzellente, hart am Original orientierte Neuinterpretation.

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A solid follow-up to Healey's impressive debut, Hell To Pay features some of the guitarist's hottest playing to date.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide
 

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How Long Can A Man Be Strong

I've been a restless,
for a long, long time
Tryin' to find a home
for heart of mine
The nights are lonely,
and the days are long
It’s hard to find a reason,
to carry on

But all this searchin',
is it ever gonna end?
Must I keep on losin',
again and again?

Tell me, how long can a man be strong?
How long must he carry on,
without the love of a woman,
to call his own?
Tell me, how long can a man be strong ?

It’s on every man’s mind,
to find that special girl
Someone to love me,
when I’m alone in the world

But I know she’s out there somewhere,
so I’m gonna keep tryin’
Someday I’m gonna find her,
it’s just a matter of time

As long as I’ve been waiting,
I know she’s been waiting, too
Hold on a little longer,
I’m all the way to you

Now ever since this world began,
it takes a woman to make a man
Now I need someone!
Don’t you know I need someone?

Ooh

But all this searchin’,
is it ever gonna end?
Must I keep on losin’,
again and again and again?

Yeah
Oh keep on waiting
Oh noooo
Yeah


How Much

One candle burns brightly,
it flickers and it almost dies like me
Alone against the wind
But this moment has magic,
it's keeping that flame alive as we hold on to the night
Well, there'll be another day,
we'll have another chance but not like this

No, nothing can compare to the way that I feel right now
Do you feel the same way as I do, then tell me how
How strong do you want it to be?
How do you want to hear it from me?
How long, baby, tell me, how deep?
How much love do you want from me?
Ooh

Somebody must have scared you,
left you wounded and afraid to love again
You are just like me
But nobody's ever held me so close, so desp'rately,
and I never held anybody like you
How much love do you want from me?
How much love do you want from me?
Ooh

How much love do you want from me, yeah?
How strong do you want it to be?
How do you want to hear it from me?
How long, baby, tell me, how deep?
How much love, do you want from me?
Ooh

How much love do you want from me?
Ooh

I Think I Love You Too Much

I'm not alone, you're sittin' right there
How come I get the feeling,
you could vanish into the air?
I love you more than anybody else baby
Can't you tell I'm an easy touch
Oh, baby baby, I think I love you too much

If I picked you up, you'd slip right away
And if I locked you up,
you'd find a way to make me stay
You're gonna hurt me more than anybody baby,
'cause you know I'm an easy touch
Oh, baby baby, I think I love you too much

I guess I'm gonna give you what you want,
'cause I so in to you
You never give an inch to me baby,
though I've been giving you a mile or two

I'm not alone, you're sittin' right there
How come I get the feeling,
you could vanish into the air?
I love you more than anybody else baby
Can't you tell I'm an easy touch
Oh, baby baby, I think I love you too much

Chorus 3x.

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