Jeff Healy Dies of Cancer
 

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5...1TSiwbFXNVIGwg

Jeff Healy died of cancer at the age of 41 this weekend.
I was so surprised when I heard about this on Sunday night. I never heard that he was sick.

What is most surprising is how quiet this has been.

Damn, had no idea he was sick either, or had I heard he died until now. He was a hell of a guitar player, even had a spot in Roadhouse back in the day, he'll be missed.

...and here is an interesting page on cbc.ca
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourview/2008..._healey_1.html

His most famous song, although I liked his blues much better than his pop, still a decent song.
Sorry they disabled embedding for this video it says.

Wow. Bummer. I had no idea. :(

I did not know this:
"Healey lost his sight when he was one year old, due to retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the eyes which he suffered from throughout his life and which ultimately killed him."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Healey

I was truly saddened by his death. He was a great musician and inspiring in many ways. I really feel for his family.

I now regret never going to see him play. :sad: For a year, I often walked by his club (though apparently it wasn't his).... I lived in the area.

I cried for about five minutes when I got the call from my mother around 6:30 yesterday morning. Jeff played a festival quite often in my hometown and when he was here he would stay with a childhood friend (his father helps run said festival) . When I was around eight or nine he played guitar for me, which in turn inspired me to start playing. A couple of days before I put Angel Eyes back on my I-Pod and had been listening to it quite a lot. It hit me really hard as he was a friend, albeit not a close one, but one that had a very serious impact on my life. He came here two years ago with the jazz wizards to play the festival (Harvest Jazz and Blues; it's pretty prominent music festival in Eastern Canada) and we talked about his life and about what I was doing. It is still kind of hard.

In the past three days my grandmother died, my inspiration died, and my hero retired. It's a hard week lol.

So young, so talented, so inspiring. RIP, Jeff.

Dude, you're from Peterborough?

Healey was an amazing talent, not only in blues but across all genres. The good die young.

No I'm from Fredericton NB. My childhood best friend's father used to run the festival and I practically lived at their house and saw a lot of great talent pass through it. Jeff had an impact on me.