Play 90 second soundbite of 'I'm Torn Down' @ 'CD quality'
Taking some blues 'standards' and adding a few surprisingly 'diverse' tracks, Healey has indelibly stamped his mark on all the works with his distinctive gutsy but smooth guitar style and slick vocal delivery. Unsurprisingly, Healey lays down loads of honest-to-goodness guitar solos here but it's not just about Healey's guitar virtuosity - Healey's a blues boy from start to finish and he also vocalises with similar guts and grind, or certainly as much as his smooth vocal chords will allow. Further to the obvious class and focus of the 'main man', Healey always manages to get his band sorted such that his accompaniment is suitably slick and empathetic to his cause - the end result is pretty much faultless and certainly between them they lay down an effortless blue groove.
Healey's choice of material is quite interesting; Healey hasn't just gone for obvious choices here - preferring instead to re-work some perhaps less frequented, in the blues world, 'chunes' and giving them the Healey blues work-over; Hank Williams' 'Jambalaya', Robbie Robertson's 'The Weight' and Neil Young's 'Like A Hurricane' to name just three.
'Mess Of Blues' by Jeff Healey will be welcomed by the Healey faithful but should also work well in helping to bring new blood to the Healey 'fold'. 'Mess Of Blues' doesn't actually mark ground or set new standards for others to better but it does keep the Jeff Healey flag flying high and proud. 'Mess Of Blues' is a great look at the timeless style of blues man Jeff Healey through a re-visiting of songs from the 'back catalogue' - a tasty little blues morsel with plenty of boogie at its heart.
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