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Hermosa Beach Blues: Jeffrey Halford & The Healers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, NOW
June 13, 2011
Contact: Doug Deutsch Publicity Services  213.924.4901 dougdeutschpr@gmail.com  
                     
   Got Those Hermosa Beach Blues: Jeffrey Halford & The Healers Are Back!

"A masterful album crammed with timeless tales and crackling fireside wisdom...fierce storyteller and skillful painter of sound...album is a vivid world filled with poignant accounts like "Louisiana Man" and "Chicken Bones Jones."        SONGWRITERS MONTHLY



 

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"BROKEN CHORD does not hit your ears as much as it slinks, shutters, shakes and shimmies across the surface of your mind."             

                                                                       THE ALTERNATE ROOT

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   Band Performs Locally: Cafe Boogaloo - Saturday, June 18 

       (HERMOSA BEACH, CA) - It doesn't seem like there could be a straight line between Dallas and San Francisco any more than there could be a direct connection between being an architectural student and learning to play guitar and sing on the mean streets of Chinatown and Union Square - until you hear Jeffrey Halford and it all makes sense.   
     Jeffrey Halford and the Healers "Get Those Hermosa Beach Blues" at Cafe Boogaloo, 1238 Hermosa Ave., Hermosa Beach, Saturday, June 18. 9-11 p.m. $12. Info: (310) 308-4326 or www.boogaloo.com.       
     Longtime tune-smith Jeffrey 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."  

        Dirty Linen hailed Halford as "Hemingway armed with a bluesy guitar," which is really just a colorful way of saying the guy doesn't play favorites when it comes to words and music. He 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 just to name a few. Turns out the streets of San Francisco might have been the best teacher of all.

            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. CD to be released sometime in 2011.
       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 sometime in 2011.       JEFFREY HALFORD INTERVIEWS/REVIEW COPIES/SHOW TIX AVAILABLE.

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