Mess of Blues (Jeff Healey album)

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Mess of Blues
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 11, 2008
Recorded2007
StudioStudio 92, Islington Academy, Jeff Healey's Roadhouse
Genre Blues rock
Length51:18
Label Ruffhouse
Producer Alec Fraser
Jeff Healey chronology
It's Tight Like That
(2006)
Mess of Blues
(2008)
Songs from the Road
(2009)

Mess of Blues is an album by Jeff Healey. It was released in March 2008, less than two weeks after Healey's death. Four of the album's tracks were recorded live in front of audiences, two of the live tracks at the Islington Academy in London, and the other two live tracks at Jeff Healey's Roadhouse in Toronto. The other six tracks were recorded at Studio 92 in Canada by Norm Barker and Richard Uglow. The whole album features the band which normally accompanied Jeff at his club, Jeff Healey's Roadhouse. The song "Mess of Blues", which appears on the album was written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman and was originally recorded by Elvis Presley.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I'm Tore Down" – 5:23
  2. "How Blue Can You Get" – 8:54
  3. "Sugar Sweet" (Mel London) – 3:46
  4. "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" – 4:00
  5. "The Weight" – 4:26
  6. "Mess O' Blues" – 3:24
  7. "It's Only Money" (Dave Murphy) – 3:10
  8. "Like a Hurricane" – 6:39
  9. "Sitting on Top of the World" – 7:07
  10. "Shake, Rattle and Roll" – 4:29

Personnel

Production

References

  1. Article title [ usurped ]
  2. The Jeff Healey Band - Mess of Blues CD Album