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Jeff Healey: See the Light

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Label: Arista Records
Released: 1988
Time:
 49:43
Category: Blues
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jeffhealeyband.com
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Purchase date: 2000.12.07
Price in €: 6,99



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[1] Confidence Man (Hiatt) - 3:12
[2] My Little Girl (Healey) - 3:10
[3] River of No Return (Reid/Tiven/Tiven) - 3:31
[4] Don't Chance Go By (Healey) - 3:20
[5] Angel Eyes (Hiatt/Koller) - 4:40
[6] Nice Problem to Have (Blunt/Jeff Healey Band) - 4:50
[7] Someday, Someway (Briley/Tate) - 3:28
[8] I Need to Be Loved (Healey) - 3:43
[9] Blue Jeans Blues' (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 5:39
[10] That's What They Say (Healey) - 4:27
[11] Hideaway (King/Thompson) - 4:26
[12] See the Light (Healey) - 4:26

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

Addirtiona Personel:
Bobbye Hall - Percussion
Benmont Tench - Keyboards
Robbie Blunt - Guitar

Marilyn Martin - Vocals, Background Vocals
Kip Lennon - Vocals, Background Vocals
Mark Lennon - Vocals, Background Vocals
Michael Lennon - Vocals, Background Vocals
Pat Lennon - Vocals, Background Vocals
Timothy B. Schmit - Vocals, Background Vocals

Jimmy Iovine - Producer
Greg Ladanyi - Producer, Mixing
Thom Panunzio - Producer, Engineer, Associate Producer, Mixing
Doug Sax - Mastering
Ron Lewter - Mastering
Debbie Sommer - Assistant Producer
Paul Dieter - Assistant Engineer
Sharon Rice - Assistant Engineer
Duane Seykora - Assistant Engineer
Maude Gilman - Art Direction
Darius Anthony - Photography
 

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Jeff Healey is an incredible story, and an even more incredible guitar player. The Toronto-based 22-year-old phenom plays blues and blues-rockers with all the dazzle and spitfire of Stevie Ray Vaughan, but with a gotta-see-it-to-believe-it technique that's as fascinating as his licks are hot. Healey lays the guitar across his lap, fretting with all five fingers on his left hand (including his thumb for bending and hitting notes that conventional players can't quite reach) producing a mean, biting vibrato. Healey's also been known to play with his teeth and stand up in the midst of a scorching solo and play behind his head, which is standard fare for most guitar pyrotechnicians but is a little more interesting coming from Healey, who is blind. Still, the man's got more vision than most, as one listen to See The Light will prove. Healey's debut features well-written originals (the finessed instrumental "Nice Problem To Have") and well-chosen covers (Billy Gibbons' "Blue Jean Blues") in a variety of settings, from pop-rock ballads (John Hiatt's "Angel Eyes") to scorching radio-ready blues rockers ("Confidence Man" and "See The Light"), that should find a happy home on the radio. One of the most promising debuts of the year, and certainly the blues story of the year.

CMJ New Music Report (Issue: 154 - Sep 23, 1988)



Jeff Healey's debut album See the Light may be similar to Stevie Ray Vaughan's high-octane blues-rock, but in blues and blues-rock, it's often the little things that count, such as guitar styles, and there's no denying that Healey has a distinctive style. Healey plays his Stratocaster flat on his lap, allowing him to perform unusual long stretches that give his otherwise fairly predictable music real heart and unpredictability. Throughout the album, his guitar work keeps things interesting, even on slow ballads like "Angel Eyes" (one of two John Hiatt songs, by the way, along with the ripping "Confidence Man"). That's what keeps See the Light interesting, and it's what makes it an intriguing, promising debut. Unfortunately, Healey has never quite fulfilled that promise, but it's still exciting to hear the first flowerings of his talent.

Thom Owens, All-Music Guide



B. B. King und Stevie Ray Vaughan loben unisono: Der Mann spielt revolutionär. Von Geburt an blind legt der 21jährige Kanadier Jeff Healey die Gitarre übers Knie und kreiert reinen Bluesrock der rauhesten Sorte. Eine vehemente Talentprobe seiner Fähigkeiten als Gitarrist und Songschreiber.

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Der blinde Gitarrist aus Toronto hat wie Robert Cray das Zeug zu einem neuen Blues-Gitarrenhelden. Mit ungewöhnlicher Grifftechnik, unverbildet rauher Stimme und kraftvollen Songs überzeugt Jeff Healey auf seinem Albumdebüt "See The Light" ohne Abstriche. Die CD holt für die solide Aufnahme keine bemerkenswerten Klangvorteile heraus. LP-Kritik: steroplay 1/89

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