Johnny Marr & the Healers

For the first time in the 13 years after the Smiths called it quits, Johnny Marr announced that he had formed his own band aptly titled Johnny Marr's Healers. It was certainly a welcomed proclamation as in those 13 years Marr was mostly an exaggerated sideman (as much as someone of his signature sound, talent, and reputation can be) working with the likes of Kirsty McColl, the The, the Pet Shop Boys, the Talking Heads, and Billy Bragg. The closest to an actual solo outing was with Bernard Sumner as one half of Electronic -- but that still felt much like the Morrissey/Marr hier...