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Hmm, oh Lord, Lord
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
Blues a healer, all over the world
Blues a healer, healer
All over the world, all over the world
It healed me, it can heal you
Healed me to heal you early one morning
It can heal you the blues can heal you, yeah, yeah
It healed me, healed me, it healed me
I was down, I was down, it healed me
Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord
Yes it did, yes it did, look now
A woman left me, the blues healed me
My woman left me, left me, early one morning
Blues healed me, it healed me, healed me, yeah, yeah
Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord
Hmm, have mercy
The blues, the blues is a healer
Blues, blues, is a healing healer
It healed, healed, healed
Heal, heal, heal, heal
All over the world, all over the world
It's a healer
One night, I was laying down
Feeling so bad, so low, so low
My woman had left me
Blues came along and healed me
Heal, heal, heal, heal
Carlos, it healed me, Carlos
Carlos, it healed me
The blues, it healed, it healed, healer
Hey, hey, healed me, healed me, healer
Hey, blues a healer, the blues a healer
All over the world, all over the world, hmm
Lord, Lord, Lord, blues a healer
All over the world, all over the world
Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord
Healed me, healed, healed, healed
It healed me, it healed me, to heal me
Can heal you, can heal you, heal you, if you let it
heal de heal, blue de blues, heal, heal, blue, blue, etc...
I don't think JLH ever wrote down any of his lyrics
I laugh every time I read this comment. And that is every time I hear this song.
YaY!
What about you?
Thank goodness nobody did.
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Hope u still have it!
Yes Mr, Carl! Still here rocking out, found you'd commented only by the RP Main Mix taking me back here 4 years later :)
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Obviously Carlos Santana on guitar. Obviously John Lee Hooker on mumble. At least an 8 ...
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One of my all time favourite tracks! I literally just made an account to make this comment haha
Hope u still have it!
what is the wind instrument (presumably) that is weird-sounding/sensual at the begining?
I can't find any info on it, but I wonder if it is Chester D Thompson on a keyboard sample of some kind of pan flute or ocarina?
heal de heal, blue de blues, heal, heal, blue, blue, etc...
I don't think JLH ever wrote down any of his lyrics
LOL You really have me laughing! Perfect. Love the song, btw.
"YOU'RE WELCOME, Mr. Hooker, ANY time." ~
- Carlos
Good tune!
Understatement!
Obviously Carlos Santana on guitar. Obviously John Lee Hooker on mumble. At least an 8 ...
Laughed SO hard at this...
Obviously Carlos Santana on guitar. Obviously John Lee Hooker on mumble. At least an 8 ...
Cool blend of jazzy and bluesy!
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Now, go away and practice. A Lot.
I don't think JLH ever wrote down any of his lyrics
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What an incredibly great loss for you! To each his own! I had to crank it, close my eyes, and enjoy!
No matter how grammatical it is what Santana speaks, I barely make stand of your first clause.
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It was also right before JLH died, so it could be that JLH was just old and kinda pooped.
When RP first played this I thought it was so coollll. I bought the CD and after listening to the tracks they began to fall flat. Great music but it is a little stylized, "cheesy. "
However, I saw Santana 6 months ago and he was "awesome" and not cheesy.
It was also right before JLH died, so it could be that JLH was just old and kinda pooped.
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It seems thet pitch-shifted a babbling infant to get the vocal track.
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Some big blues players consider JLH one of the premier blues artists.
And I remind you that before Santana the guitarist was with Santana (the band of the first three albums), and before Woodstock, he headed up the Santana BLUES Band. In these 40+ years, he's played with virtually every major blues guitarist and singer. Why should JLH not be one of them?
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So well-said. Hotel breakfast music.
Self-indulgent solos all over the verses? Check.
I wasn't surprised to see Santana's name on this synthesizer-preset dreck. He's been coasting for thirty years.
Carlos Santana with Ry Cooder performing The Healer at the All Our Colors benefit concert, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, 10-10-1992. Love that slide. www.rycooderstuff.co.uk
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Wow I thought being deaf would have more advantages for ya?
Liner notes say Mike Kappus and Jim Gaines.
Once I LOVED Santana and still cherish his early works especially
(first 5-6 albums)!
But, frankly, more and more he tramples on my nerves!
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You gone deep baby!
Thank you Carlos for making the concerted effort to seek diverse styles and artists to collaborate with.
This is one of those incredible comments like, "Oh you mean that Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings? Maybe I should listen to some of his early stuff."
Why you did not play HENDRIX to the last bit?
Well, I think it's a fisherman in his wet-gear fighting to get into the wheelhouse, whose windows are steamed up.
But what I really wanted to say was, gosh I love this music.
You said the right words, indeed!!
Well, I think it's a fisherman in his wet-gear fighting to get into the wheelhouse, whose windows are steamed up.
But what I really wanted to say was, gosh I love this music.
The most overrated blues guy ever? Thats why he commands such respect from his peers. He was over 70 when this was recorded so no he wasn't at the top of his game but alot of people loved that raspy voice. Since John Lee is not with us guess he's not waiting for such a blues expert to forgive him. I was just intersted in the comments on this song and couldn't believe that such disrespect was given to two legends as there was another comment by another "expert" that Carlos only plays 6 notes ,I don't suppose he has ever watched him play. Music is a positive experience, not a negative one that so many comments are bringing. If I don't care for a song thats fine somebody else obviously will or it won't stay on the playlist very long, be tolerant please, life is too short to be so negative
absolutely!
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You're probably correct, in that Carlos Santana is a more technical player than JLH. However, JLH is about the blues..the deep feeling that playing the blues both comes from, and exudes...and less so about being a virtuoso, if that makes sense.
SURE DOES! But check the phrasing of both artists, would be interesting to know the production sequence of this track.............
You're probably correct, in that Carlos Santana is a more technical player than JLH. However, JLH is about the blues..the deep feeling that playing the blues both comes from, and exudes...and less so about being a virtuoso, if that makes sense.
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