JULY 11, 2012 - Oh the best laid plans! When singer songwriter and guitarist JEFF POWERS went into the studio he intended to record a bare-boned acoustic album but somewhere down the line he enlisted the help of his friends and committed roots troubadours LOS BLANCOS and the end result is some of the most riveting and literate music this side of JOHN HIATT. POWERS' self titled release is an engaging listen that will leave amazed at the guitarists musicality and virtuosity if his tremendous sense of songcraft does not. “This collection was culled from the songs I wrote over the past 10 years or more. I started several other projects but trashed them all before they were released. Now I’ve finally put together a CD of all original songs (I do have 2 CD’s of original blues though). The problem I had for this CD is that I wrote many songs over the years and had to decide which ones I’d put on this CD. These songs are not a collection of the best ones I’ve written but they're the songs I felt I needed to put out first and they work or sit together, if you will, as a whole.”