“Hemingway With A Blues-y Guitar” – Dirty Linen Magazine
Jeffrey
Halford (pictured) and his longtime band, The Healers, perform this
Friday, June 29, as part of the summer-long 7th Annual Creekside Music
Festival Concert Series in Mill Valley. Free and family-friendly!
“Jeffrey
Halford and The Healers album, ‘Broken Chord’, does not hit your ears
as much as it slinks, shutters, shakes and shimmies across the surface
of your mind. Barrel roll pianos, big, fat swamp guitar notes and hard
hitting rhythms push around Jeffrey’s vocals. His voice comes on like a
lyrical conversation as it snarls admonitions and finger points, naming
names (“Louisiana Man”, “Ninth Ward”), paints a picture of a hot rod pin
up wife-to-be (“Rockabilly Bride”) and offers a great visual of someone
who looks like a barnyard feathered friend, forget about how he tastes
(“Chicken Bones
Jones”).
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Acclaimed Americana/Blues Troubadour Jeffrey Halford & the Healers In Concert@
7th Annual Creekside Music Festival Concert Series In Mill Valley – Friday, June 29
sings with passion and conviction about subjects ranging from the
plight of Native Americans to the raging tragedy caused by Hurricane
Katrina in New Orleans not long ago – hence his very apropos monicker,
“Americana Troubadour.”
Jeffrey Halford and his longtime band, the Healers, perform as part of the summer-long Creekside Music Festival Concert Series, 60 Tennessee Valley Rd., Mill Valley, this Friday, June 29. 8 p.m. Free. This is a family-friendly event! Info: (415) 388-6393 or log onto www.tcsd.us
and kick-ass pop – take some Southern soul, add a heap of Texas
storytelling, a dash of Bay Area’s freewheeling liberal
spirit/literary leanings/seedier side, throw in some desert sunshine
and dirt, then stir together with an architect’s eye for detail and
durability and you’ve got yourself an idea why Paste magazine recently named him to their “Ten Most Influential Artists of the Decade.”
who doesn’t play favorites when it comes to words and music, Jeffrey
Halford knows how to get his point across subtly, and he also knows when
to hammer it home. But most of all, he knows how to craft music
that grabs your attention and keeps it – on record, but particularly on
stage, where he and the band make you want to jump out of your
seat..Jeffrey has shared the stage with Los Lobos, Taj Mahal, Guy
Clark, Robert Earl Keen, and George Thorogood to name a few. Turns out
the streets of San Francisco might have been the best teacher of all.
for his heartfelt songs about the conditions of the everyday man and
woman in America. Among his most memorable: “Cry of Hope,” about
Americans’ need to keep faith in America; and “Louisiana Man,” about the
2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster and our government’s slow response to
it. As validation of Halford’s writing prowess, he won “2009 Songwriter
of the Year” at the 5th Annual South Bay Music Awards. BROKEN CHORD went
as high as #8 on the Americana radio charts.
Based in San Francisco over the last 15 years, Halford’s original roots
rock ‘n roll songs etch a uniquely American, and specifically
California, landscape. Look for a new Jeffrey Halford and the Healers album to be released late in 2011.
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