©words & music Deborah Crooks (ASCAP)
Deborah Crooks, acoustic guitar, vocals
Kwame Copeland, guitar, dobro, backing vocals
Ben Bernstein, bass
Mike Stevens, drums, percussion

Mixed by Mike Stevens
Mastered by Ben Bernstein

Twin Lakes

New Roots

I Was Yours

41st Avenue

Deborah Crooks www.deborahcrooks.com
Produced and arranged by Art Khu. Recorded at the new Tiny Telephone in Oakland and mixed by engineer Shawn Alpay (John Vanderslice, Emily Jane White)
 ©Deborah Crooks (ASCAP) 
Deborah Crooks, vocals
Art Khu, acoustic and electric guitars, piano, organ
Kwame Copeland, acoustic guitar and vocals
Mike Stevens, drums
Ben Bernstein, bass
 Mastered by Michael Romanowski at Coast Mastering.

Beauty Everywhere

Deborah Crooks - Beauty Everywhere

The new EP from Deborah Crooks www.deborahcrooks.com
Produced and arranged by Art Khu. Recorded at the new Tiny Telephone in Oakland and mixed by engineer Shawn Alpay (John Vanderslice, Emily Jane White)
All songs ©Deborah Crooks (ASCAP), except Shattered by Crooks/M. Tani (ASCAP)
Deborah Crooks, vocals
Art Khu, acoustic and electric guitars, piano, organ
Kwame Copeland, acoustic guitar and vocals
Mike Stevens, drums
Ben Bernstein, bass
 Mastered by Michael Romanowski at Coast Mastering. 

Shattered

Found

I wrote this last summer at a songwriting retreat in Idaho that was full of birds and birdsong. To celebrate my birthday, I recorded it with some of my favorite musicians. Be your own bird! www.deborahcrooks.com
Recorded by Ben Bernstein at Petting Zoo Studio, Oakland, CA and Kwame Copeland at Studio Valencia, San Francisco, CA
Mixed and mastered by Ben Bernstein at Petting Zoo Studio, Oakland, CA

Deborah Crooks: vocals, whistles, wood frog, woodpecker rattle
Kwame Copeland: acoustic guitars, whistles
Ben Bernstein: upright bass, whistles, peeps
Peter Whitehead: Asian fiddle, corruga horn, catbird whistle, bells

Lyrics: 
Song sparrow sings its own song
No other place it belongs
Like the towhee peeps in the leaves
In your own life you must believe
And be your own bird

Hummingbird nest in the tree
Spun thread a tiny blue egg
Wings a blur in the air
We all have our own truth to declare
Be your own bird

Nature can beautiful nature can be cruel
Some days you win, some days you play the fool
Mockingbird attacking its own reflectio

Across the meadow I see some geese
Dabbling in the green green grass
No one’s first and no one's last
Everyone has their own path
Be your own bird

Nature can beautiful nature can be cruel
Some days you lose some days you completely rule
Eagle perched atop the highest mountain

Be your own bird
Be your own bird
Be your own bird

©Deborah Crooks (ASCAP)

Be Your Own Bird

To commemorate its 10-year recording anniversary, the title track of Deborah's first full-length record is made-over by Mike Stevens at Lost Monkey Studio with drum loops, synth bass and keyboards.  

...wonderful colorful arrangements and warm, human sounding vocals. Top notch."

"Deborah Crooks pours stiff shots of brains, soul, and guts into her compositions."

California-based songwriter Deborah Crooks' lyric-driven and soul-wise music draws on folk, rock and Americana, and is often compared to Lucinda Williams and The Cowboy Junkies. Her music ventures into everything from funk and reggae to the blues, reflecting her expansive and eclectic tastes, a sound which has evolved over her years studying writing at The Naropa Institute, voice with Mysore V. Amba Prasad (India), and cowriting and collaborating with her Bay Area peers. She’s released several CDs and EPs of critically noted original music, including 2016's Beauty Everywhere, the acclaimed 2013 release, Little Bird, and had her music featured on the PBS Series Road Trip Nation and Songwriters From the Fog Compilation V1. In 2014, she cofounded the band Bay Station with Kwame Copeland, which has released three records of original Americana and rock and roll, including 2018's Other Desert Cities.

Adding Water to the Ashes - Remix

Adding Water To The Ashes - Remix

©Deborah Crooks (ASCAP)
http://deborahcrooks.com/

The Department of the West

Honey

Long Roads

Lit By The Mystery

Let The River Do The Running

06/12/019

Department Of The West

River Stones

A Garden

Bay Area songwriter Deborah Crooks  drawing on folk, rock, Americana and the Blues.