Cody

Blind singer/guitarist from the from the 1989 action thriller Road House featuring Patrick Swayze (not the 2024 remake featuring Jake Gyllenhaal). Cody's Band is the house band of the Double Deuce in Jasper, Missouri, a roadhouse that attracts a particularly violent crowd. Cody is an old acquaintance of the Double Deuce's new bouncer Dalton, the movie's main character played by Swayze. When they meet, Cody explains to Dalton: "Man, this toilet is worse than the one we worked in Dayton. It's a mean scene around here, man. There's blood on the floor every night."

Cody is played by the successful Canadian musician Jeff Healey, a visually impaired singer/guitarist in real life, and the band in the movie is his actual trio with Joseph Rockman on bass guitar and Thomas Stephen on drums. The repertoire of Cody's Band consists of amped-up blues rock versions of bar band classics such as 'Roadhouse Blues' (The Doors) and 'Hoochie Coochie Man' (Willie Dixon).

See also

• Cody's Band

Jeff Healey as Cody in Road House (1989)