Feel This Explained

Feel This
Type:	studio album
Artist:	the Jeff Healey Band
Cover:	Jeff Healey Band Feel This.jpg
Released:	November 1992
Recorded:	June–August, 1992
Studio:	Forte Studios and Sounds Interchange (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Genre:	Hard rock
Length:	57:13
Label:	Arista^[1]
Producer:	Joe Hardy, The Jeff Healey Band^[2]
Prev Title:	Hell to Pay
Prev Year:	1990
Next Title:	Cover to Cover
Next Year:	1995

Feel This is the third album by the Jeff Healey Band, released in 1992.^[3]

Critical reception

The Toronto Star noted that "the biggest drawback is the weak songwriting, including Tom Petty's contribution, 'Lost In Your Eyes'."^[4] The Gazette deemed the album Healey's "most professional set of lowest-common-denominator hard rock yet."^[5]

Personnel

The Jeff Healey Band

• Jeff Healey – lead vocals, guitars
• Joe Rockman – bass guitar, backing vocals (3)
• Tom Stephen – drums, backing vocals (3)

Additional Musicians

• Paul Shaffer – keyboards (1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11-14)
• Washington Savage – keyboards (2, 5-7, 10)
• Joe Hardy – additional keyboards, additional percussion
• Richard Chycki – dobro (8)
• Mischke Butler – backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 8-10, 12, 14)
• Molly Johnson – backing vocals (2, 4, 10, 12)
• Jimi Jamison – backing vocals (3, 4, 7-9, 11-13)
• Amanda Marshall – backing vocals (3, 7-9, 11, 13)
• Warren "Wiggy" Toll – backing vocals (3)
• Jr. John – rap (10)

Handclaps on "My Kinda Lover"

• Richard Chycki, Sharron Robert, Warren "Wiggy" Toll, Patricia Worrall and Dawn Zeeman

Production

• The Jeff Healey Band – producers
• Joe Hardy – producer, engineer, mixing
• Richard Chycki – assistant engineer
• Brett Zilahi – assistant engineer
• David "Doomsday" Stinson – mix assistant
• George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York City, New York, USA)
• Tom Stephen – art direction, design
• Hugh Syme – art direction, design
• Jeff Katz – photography

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Peak position
1992	US Billboard 200^[6]	174
1992	Canadian RPM 100 Albums^[7]	27
1992	UK Albums Chart^[8]	72
1993	Australian ARIA Albums Chart^[9]	37
1992	Swedish Albums Chart^[10]	41
1992	Dutch Mega Album Top 100^[11]	57
1990	German Albums Charts^[12]	83

Singles

Year	Song	Chart	Peak Position
1992	"Cruel Little Number"	Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks^[13]	17
1993	"Heart of an Angel"	Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks^[14]	52
1993	"Lost in Your Eyes"	US Billboard Hot 100^[15]	91
1993	"Lost in Your Eyes"	Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks^[16]	5
1993	"Leave a Light On"	Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks^[17]	60
1994	"You're Coming Home"	Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks^[18]	40

Notes and References

1. News: Abbott . Jim . Music in the Bin . Orlando Sentinel . 13 Nov 1992 . Calendar . 11.
2. Feel This by The Jeff Healey Band . Billboard . Nov 21, 1992 . 104 . 47 . 58.
3. News: Dunn . Mark . Healey on Cloud Nine over latest album . Ottawa Citizen . 7 Nov 1992 . H9.
4. News: Howell . Peter . The Jeff Healey Band Feel This . Toronto Star . 7 Nov 1992 . K10.
5. News: Lepage . Mark . Feel This . The Gazette . 21 Nov 1992 . E11.
6. Web site: [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=the jeff healey band|chart=all}} Feel This - The Jeff Healey Band]. Billboard. 28 June 2011.
7. RPM 100 Albums . 56. 25. RPM . . 28 June 2011. 19 December 1992. https://web.archive.org/web/20121023113027/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.1830&type=1 . 2012-10-23. live.
8. Web site: Feel This . Official Charts Company. 28 June 2011.
9. Web site: The Jeff Healey Band - Feel This . australian-charts.com . 2011-09-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20121103022248/http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Jeff+Healey+Band&titel=Feel+This&cat=a . 2012-11-03. live.
10. Web site: The Jeff Healey Band - Feel This . swedishcharts.com . 2011-09-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121103183622/http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Jeff+Healey+Band&titel=Feel+This&cat=a . 2012-11-03 . dead .
11. Web site: The Jeff Healey Band - Feel This . Dutch . dutchcharts.nl . 2011-09-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121025202442/http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Jeff+Healey+Band&titel=Feel+This&cat=a . 2012-10-25 . dead .
12. Web site: The Jeff Healey Band, Feel This . German . charts.de . 2011-09-19.
13. RPM 100 Hit Tracks . 56. 26 . RPM . archived at Library and Archives Canada . 28 June 2011. 26 December 1992. https://web.archive.org/web/20121023113045/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.1840&type=1 . 2012-10-23. live.
14. RPM 100 Hit Tracks . 57. 6. RPM . archived at Library and Archives Canada . 28 June 2011. 20 February 1993. https://web.archive.org/web/20121023113050/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.1027&type=1 . 2012-10-23. live.
15. Web site: [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=the jeff healey band|chart=all}} Lost in Your Eyes - The Jeff Healey Band ]. Billboard . 28 June 2011.
16. RPM 100 Hit Tracks . 57. 19 . RPM . archived at Library and Archives Canada . 28 June 2011. 22 May 1993. https://web.archive.org/web/20121023113059/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.1713&type=1 . 2012-10-23. live.
17. RPM 100 Hit Tracks . 58. 13 . RPM . archived at Library and Archives Canada . 28 June 2011. 9 October 1993. https://web.archive.org/web/20121023113106/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.2263&type=1 . 2012-10-23. live.
18. RPM 100 Hit Tracks . 59. 5 . RPM . archived at Library and Archives Canada . 28 June 2011. 21 February 1994. https://web.archive.org/web/20121023113126/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.2393&type=1 . 2012-10-23. live.
19. Web site: Gold Platinum Database : Feel This : Jeff Healey Band. . 2011-09-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20120607123500/http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=Feel%20This&ica=False&sa=The%20Jeff%20Healey%20Band&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssb=Certification%20Level&ssdir=descending . 2012-06-07. live.