Jeffrey Halford Makes West Coast Sweep - Pulls In Six Award Nominations Los Angeles Music Awards, ALL ACCESS Magazine & SouthBay Music Awards Tip Their Hats To Halford

Nashville, TN (October 11, 2007) - San Francisco-based Blues/Roots/Rock singer/songwriter and guitarist Jeffrey Halford has made a West Coast sweep, pulling in six award nominations from three different taste making organizations. Halford has been nominated for: Best Blues Vocal by the Los Angeles Music Awards (now in its 17th year); Best Songwriter and Best Americana Band (with the Healers) by ALL ACCESS Magazine, and Best Songwriter, Best Vocal and Best Blues Band by the (4th annual) SouthBay Music Awards.

Halford's sixth and current CD, BROKEN CHORD (Shoeless Records), is in its eighth week in the Top 20 on the Americana Music chart. The powerfully diverse 10-song disc has received critical acclaim since its release, and includes classics-in-the-making "Dead Man's Hand," "Chicken Bones Jones," and "Rock 'n Fire." Long a fixture in the West Coast music scene, Halford has been heralded as an equal of John Fogerty, Randy Newman, Alejandro Escovedo, and John Prine. HARP Magazine contributor Brian Baker says, "After five critically acclaimed albums,Jeffrey Halford has little to prove at this point. He's got a crack band in the Healers, he plays viseral guitar with slinky abandon and writes rootsy swampy blues songs that sting and soothe equally.

Halford continues his quality streak with "BROKEN CHORD." Halford can claim numerous Third Coast fans as well, including Ron Wynn, a reviewer for the Nashville City Paper, who says: "Singer/songwriter and animated guitarist Jeffrey Halford 's latest release mixes poignant, reflective pieces with intense, powerful tunes and occasional topical numbers. Halford 's taut vocals and furious guitar work prove the driving force on all 10 numbers. His merger of blues, country and soul proves magical."