1) The sun. I think I’m one of those Seasonally Affective Disorder Folks. The sun has finally come out from hiding in the Bay Area.
2) I started the month seeing an Iron & Wine show. A great start!
3) I got clued into the cool fundraising events that Savory Thymes does in Mill Valley ( Check out their calendar!) at a benefit for the Kiss the Cook & Farmer Too TV series (check it out too)
4) Amid the kissing of cooks and farmers, we won a subscription to Full Belly Farm’s CSA program. Can I say how awesome it is to pick up a box of freshly picked vegetables each week?
5) There really is great live music & community happenings in Alameda, particularly at Speisekammer which routinely books gypsy jazz, swing and country acts, et. al. with serious chops.
6) Happy gigs. My good fortune to be playing around the Bay & up and down the coast this summer.
7) Happy yoga. Both assisting & adjusting. I’m learning lots. Plus I was instructed to work on my back bends when I left Mysore in February… four months later some of the work maybe bearing fruit. Or it could be the sun.
8) Green is not a bad color for toes…especially if you can go a day without wearing socks
9) You can pre-order Gillian Welch’s long awaited new CD The Harrow & The Harvest which comes out June 28.
10) I seemed to have gotten through the lunar eclipse relatively unscathed.
Deborah Crooks (www.DeborahCrooks.com) is a writer, performing songwriter and recording artist based in San Francisco whose lyric driven and soul-wise music has drawn comparison to Lucinda Williams, Chrissie Hynde and Natalie Merchant.
Singing about faith, love and loss, her lyrics are honed by a lifetime of writing and world travel while her music draws on folk, rock, Americana and the blues. She released her first EP “5 Acres” in 2003 produced by Roberta Donnay, which caught the attention of Rocker Girl Magazine, selecting it for the RockerGirl Discoveries Cd. In 2007, she teamed up with local producer Ben Bernstein to complete “Turn It All Red” Ep, followed by 2008’s “Adding Water to the Ashes” CD, and a second full-length CD “2010. She’s currently working on a third CD to be released in 2013.
Deborah’s many performance credits include an appearance at the 2006 Millennium Music Conference, the RockerGirl Magazine Music Convention, IndieGrrl, at several of the Annual Invasion of the GoGirls at SXSW in Austin, TX, the Harmony Festival and 2009’s California Music Fest, MacWorld 2010, Far West Fest and many other venues and events. She toured the Northwest as part “Indie Abundance Music, Money & Mindfulness” (2009) with two other Bay Area artists, and followed up with “The Great Idea Tour of the Southwest in March 2010 with Jean Mazzei.
