John Lee had been active since the late 1940s, but had been pretty quiet over the bulk of the 70s and 80s. He came bounding back with 'the Healer', helped by collaborators such as Los Lobos, Canned Heat (which whom he'd recorded an album "Hooker n Heat" some years earlier), Bonnie Raitt and Carlos Santana, among others.
I quite like it. The first half of the album has a number of boogie-rocking blues tracks, even a little Latin flavour on the opening (title) track. The second half of the album lends itself more to stripped-down, low-key, mostly acoustic tracks.
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