New CD "Adding Water to the Ashes" Available Now - September 28, 2008
The CD is done, and available for sale at my shows, and shortly, on CD Baby and via a host of digital distributors.
Featuring 11 original tracks, "Adding Water to the Ashes" was produced, engineered and mixed by Ben Bernstein, and features a host of great musicians including Alex Walsh (guitar), Art Khu (guitar, piano, organ), Ben Bernstein (bass), Dave Tweadie (drums), Eamon Ryland (acoustic & electric guitar, lap steel, resonator), Yoon Ki Chai (violin) as well as members of The Whoreshoes. I look forward to sharing it with you.
Save the DATE: CD Party September 26 - September 5, 2008
The CD is done and about to go to press. In the meantime, please mark September 26 at Socha Cafe (see calendar) on your calendar. I'll be playing a show with my band and CDs will be available. And I'll be sharing the bill with friend, Jean Mazzei, whose also got a very recent CD. Come on down.
Please save the date! My CD should be (cross fingers) hot off the presses and I'll be playing with a band.
I'd love to see you there, Deborah
DEBORAH CROOKS and Jean Mazzei perform at Socha Café, Friday, September 26
Two local songwriters celebrate the release of two new all-original CDS
JEAN MAZZEI " caffeinated Folk Rock, Eclectic and Smart "
DEBORAH CROOKS "Crooks pours stiff shots of brains, soul and guts into her compositions...."-Flavorpill
Date: Friday, Sept 26
Venue: Socha Cafe
Address: 3235 Mission Street (@Valencia), San Francisco, CA
He's a huge supporter of music and his radio is a labor of love. To keep it going; however, it will need some donations. Send him some love when you get a chance.
Mixing is almost complete on my full-length CD. Featuring 11 of my original songs, I'm delighted by the great musician's who've played on it including Ben Bernstein, Dave Tweedie, Eamon Ryland, Art Khu, Yoon Ki Chai, Alex Walsh and members of the Whoreshoes. I'm aiming for a September release date. Stay tuned!
SF Free Folk Fest - June 10, 2008
I'm playing this next Saturday AND they're looking for volunteers.
Come on down!
THE 32nd ANNUAL SF FREE FOLK FESTIVAL
Concerts – Music and Dance Workshops
– Evening Dances – Family Activities
June 21 & 22, 2008
SF City College
easy access to Balboa BART Station
In the brand new WELLNESS CENTER
Noon to 10pm
FREE www.sffolkfest.org www.myspace.com/sffreefolkfestival
415 665 9915
Big Apple-dom - May 29, 2008
I'm off to New York City tomorrow for a spur of the moment trip. Anyone need a last minute opener or gig-sub, lemme know! write
deborah@deborahcrooks.com
session fun - May 20, 2008
well, all the basics are down...now just overdubs, mixing, mastering...here's a little guitar recording action from Eamon Ryland.
Bay to Breakers & Cafe La Vie - May 13, 2008
I will be performing a set at the Ben Bernstein & Friends stop along the Bay to Breakers route this Sunday.
Joining Ben will be Michael Faiella on Drums, Jordan Klein on Banjo, and members of Free Peoples and Bucky Dub. He'll likely sit in w/me on bass or guitar.
Later that day we'll be playing at
Cafe La Vie. There, I'll have Yoon Ki Chai joining me on violin. Both shows are free!
SUNDAY, MAY 18TH, 2008
Golden Gate Park
Bay to Breakers Hootenanny - 8 am
Marx Meadows (30th & JFK)
San Francisco CA
Price: Free
BB & friends perform along the 2008 Bay Breakers route.
SUNDAY, MAY 18TH, 2008
Cafe La Vie
Deborah Crooks and friends - 6 PM
514 Octavia Street
San Francisco CA 94102
(415) 621-6877
Price: Free
Bay to Breakers Day in the heart of Hayes Valley. Come hang out after
the race for original music, great coffee drinks, and other eats.
Central Cal gig - May 6, 2008
Hello,
I'm happy to be returning to San Luis Obispo on June 28. Am looking to book gigs on the way and on the return.
Let me know if you have any leads or would like to share a So. Cal/Central Cal. show
I've been back in the studio the past month, working with Ben Bernstein again, and am really excited about how the new recordings are sounding. Aiming for a mid-summer completion date. Stay tuned!
Turn It All Red Review by Lucid Culture - March 24, 2008
"Turn It All Red is the title of the excellent new janglerock album from Bay Area songwriter Deborah Crooks. Backed by a tight three-piece band, singer/guitarist Crooks opens the album with the catchy, bouncy title track. It’s about pulling out all the stops: “pull out your purple heart and turn it all red,” she cajoles. And what a fine song stylist she is, sounding like Chrissie Hynde at her late 80s peak as a vocalist on the next track, the beautifully pensive Land’s End. In a highly nuanced, subtly soul-inflected delivery, she retraces the steps of someone who’s finally come into her own, finally ready to stop burning her bridges." — Lucid Culture, http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/
just booking a gig Wed. 3/12 1pm venue, details tba. Gonna be fulllll week.....
recording - March 4, 2008
I've started recording anew. Tracked three songs this weekend with Ben Bernstein producing. Here's some studio video for ya where we're putting lead on "Miss Me Sometime":
B Latimer Show 3/5 not 2/27 - February 26, 2008
INSTEAD OF
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
we'll be on
The Bruce Latimer Show
Wednesday, March 5
Taping Wednesday night at 9:00 pm from the Pacifica Community Television station in Pacifica, California. Studio Audience is welcome. Jean Mazzei, Alex Walsh and I will be playing a few songs and talking to Bruce.