RIP Jeff Healey

For those of you familiar with the Canadian rock and blues scene, the passing of Jeff Healey is sad indeed.

Healey succumbed to cancer on Sunday.

Personally, I remember when Healey burst onto the national scene as a blind bluesman who played a wicked guitar. He was part of what I termed back then as a "Canadian Invasion" that was taking international rock by storm. The legacy of small but great Canadian acts in the 60s and 70s had finally reached a maturing stage with bands like Blue Rodeo, Crash Test Dummies, Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, Cowboy Junkies, The Tragically Hip, Colin James, Bryan Adams (to name a few off the top of my head) and of course the Jeff Healey Band.

Here's a piece paying tribute to him on Blogcritics here.