Blues Troubador – Jeffrey Halford
Artist At Sonoma County Blues Society’s Weekly Jam
At Society: Culture House
in Santa Rosa – Wednesday, October 16
ROSA, CA) – Sonoma County Blues Society welcomes
singer-songwriter-guitarist Jeffrey Halford to their weekly Blues Jam as the
Guest Artist on Wednesday, October 16 at Society: Culture House, 528 7th St., Santa Rosa.
Performing from 8:30-9:30 p.m. (entire evening’s music lasts from 7-11 p.m.).
Free. Info: (707) 336-2582 or https://www.facebook.com/societyculturehouse. Also
http://www.sonomacountybluessociety.net/ for
additional info.
The Sonoma County Blues Society exists to promote and
support ‘The Blues’ as a unique American art form through fellowship with the
local music community and support of music programs in our local
schools.
Marin-based Jeffrey Halford is definitely an artist that
wears his musical heart on his sleeve, writing compelling songs that deal
primarily with the American Way – i.e. Hurricane Katrina, legendary Negro League
pitcher Satchel Paige, our country’s interaction with Native Americans, etc.,
music that’s commonly referred to as Americana.
Halford’s new single
“Harry We Need You” is about politician Harry Hopkins, who was the principal
architect of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “New Deal.” Hopkins was also
the head of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), that was responsible for
some 4.3 million Americans working by 1936, not long after the Great Depression
and leading up to World War II.
Called “Hemingway with a blues-y guitar” by Dirty Linen Magazine, The
Alternate Root magazine also writes,
“Halford’s
Broken Chord shutters, shakes, and shimmies across the surface of your
mind.”
Halford delivers a uniquely American melting pot of roots, blues, rock, and
kick-ass pop, mixed with Southern soul, a heap of Texas storytelling, and 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 once named him to their “Ten Most
Influential Artists of the Decade.”
Jeffrey 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 in 2013.