Blue Monday
March 10, 2008
Unfortunately, the thing that helped bring Jeff Healey to prominence — his cameo appearance in a retarded action movie called Road House — led me to write him off as a lightweight. His biggest success, the song “Angel Eyes,” didn’t lead me to think I was missing out on much, either: standard issue blues-rock, I thought, from a guy whose personal story (self-taught musician, blind from an early age, who worked out an unusual guitar style playing with the instrument on his lap) was more interesting than his music. Since his death last week at the age of 41, I’ve been playing clips like the one above and I see I underrated him pretty badly. Time to start catching up.
