(SANTA 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.
