Thread: RIP Jeff Healy
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Old 03-10-2008, 01:42 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by koosie View Post
You know I'd not heard of him or his untimely demise but he sounds great. Well...sounded great. That's an appallingly young age to leave the stage, especially for a blues guitarist. They should get very old indeed. This thing just isn't fair and all bluesmen feel it down to their very souls.
The great Robert Johnson was 26 (died in 1938), and one of jazz's greatest Charlie Christian at 25 (Died in 1942), from tuburculosis.
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