Americana/Roots Troubadour Jeffrey Halford Performing@Creekside Music Festival

"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").                                                                    THE ALTERNATE ROOT     

 
 Acclaimed Americana/Blues Troubadour Jeffrey Halford & the Healers In Concert@
7th Annual  Creekside Music Festival Concert Series In Mill Valley - Friday, June 29                        

    (MILL VALLEY, Calif.) -  Once dubbed  "Hemingway with a blues-y guitar" by Dirty Linen Magazine, Americana/Roots singer-songwriter-guitarist Jeffrey Halford 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    

    

     Halford delivers a uniquely American melting pot of roots, blues, rock, 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." 

    

   A guy 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.

     

    Watch Jeffrey Halford perform his tune "Rock and Fire" live, here: 

     Jeffrey Halford has been called "An Americana heavyweight" (MERCURY NEWS) 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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