Blind Guitar Player In Roadhouse

Healey who was blind played his guitar with the instrument flat on his lap resulting in what guitar player magazine called astoundingly fluid bends and vibrato he blended jazz rock.

Blind guitar player in roadhouse. 5 on the billboard hot 100 list the same year roadhouse was released 1989. When playing an instrument being able to see is definitely helpful right. His laptop style of playing guitar would become his trademark. He plays a regular guitar on his lap.

Norman jeffrey jeff healey march 25 1966 march 2 2008 was a canadian blues and rock singer and guitarist who obtained large notoriety in america also. By kevin forde on november 14 2011 music. His single angel eyes hit no. As you now know his name is jeff healey but he does not play a lap steel guitar.

Top 10 blind male musicians 29. He lost his sight as a child due to a rare form of eye cancer. Grammy nominated guitar great jeff healey who rocked patrick swayze s road house died sunday at a hospital in toronto of the cancer that left him sightless as a child. For anyone who has fumbled about with a guitar learned their first chord their second even a third and then given up when it came time to put all three together imagine doing.

When he was 15 jeff healey formed the band blue direction a four piece that primarily played bar band cover tunes and featured bassist jeremy littler drummer graydon chapman and a schoolmate rob quail on second guitar. That never seemed to effect his music career as jeff scored a top 5 hit on the u s.