I’ve been enjoying a couple days of ‘normal’ life visiting family after a couple of months of focused effort. Seven of the 13 songs I’ve tracked of late are just about ready for public consumption. I’m planning to send all the materials for the new EP “It’s All Up To You” to the manufacturers later this week. Yay! I’m really pleased with the results of the work I did with producer Ben Bernstein and my band mates and hope you will be, too. You can hear one of the new songs “Let’s Move” on Myspace and my site. I’m taking pre-orders now if you’d like me to send you one; otherwise, I hope to see you at a show along The Great Idea Tour route which launches March 11 at lululemon in Burlingame. No, normalcy doesn’t last long!
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.
