I woke this morning to read that one of my most favorite artists passed away. Jeff Healey lost his lifelong fight with cancer last night. This saddens me greatly, he was an inspiration to many people on many levels and never blamed his lack of sight or his illnesses for not being able to do what he wanted to. He went ahead and did it. His music saw me through a lot of good and not so good times when I was younger. I have many good times in my life tied to particular songs of the Jeff Healey Band.

My thoughts are with Jeff's family and his many friends in music.