Deborah Crooks vocals and guitar, Kwame Copeland (lead guitar),
also Alex Walsh (guitar), Yoon Ki Chai (violin), Ed Matson (drums),
and Ben Bernstein (bass) with frequent guest appearances
Influences
My friends and fellow artists in San Francisco and beyond. Also frequently found listening to Lucinda Williams, Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris, Roseanne Cash, Johnny Cash, Patty Griffin, Bonnie Raitt, PJ Harvey, Calexico, Iron&Wine, Shawn Colvin, Chrissie Hynde, Kate Bush, Maria Muldaur, Tom Petty, U2, The The, David Gray, Lyle Lovett, Rickie Lee Jone...... Plus SKP Jois, Swamiji, Soka Gakkai International........
Sounds Like
at times Lucinda Williams, Chrissie Hynde, Mazzy Starr and Margo Timms
"Deborah Crooks pours stiff shots of brains, soul and guts into her compositions..."-Flavorpill.
"Wonderful work," --Don Campau
Singing about faith, love and loss, Deborah is an intimate and edgy artist whose work is dedicated to peace and the process of liberation. With lyric-writing skills are honed by a lifetime of writing, world travel and study of yoga and Buddhism, she's also widely published as an essayist, journalist and poet.
Her songs haves received national airplay and been featured on compilations including the Java with Jahvalin Indie Artist CD 2005 ("You Are Home" DCrooks/B.Z. Lewis) and Indie Music For Life Compilation (2007), and the RockerGirl Discoveries CD ("Dream Me" from her first EP "5 Acres" 2003).
Deborah has appeared at the 2006 Millennium Music Conference, the 2005 RockerGirl Magazine Music Convention, during SXSW week in Austin, TX, Sunset Junction, the California Music Fest and was a featured performer at the 2007 Harmony Festival. She's also performed at the Grey Eagle in Asheville, NC, Arlene's Grocery in New York and the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles. In 2008 she returned to the studio with producer Ben Bernstein (formerly of New Monsoon) to release a full-length CD "Adding Water to the Ashes" which is receiving national and international airplay. Oft compared to Mazzy Star, Chrissie Hynde and the Cowboy Junkies, her sound draws on equal parts rock and roll, the blues and the songwriter tradition. In early 2009, she participated in the 2009 RPM Challenge, co-writing a new collection of original blues tunes with another San Francisco songwriter, Alex Walsh, some of which will be released as an EP in Fall 2009.
Video of "Little Girl" from "Adding Water to the Ashes" for Operation-Shanti
hey deborah, good to see you here as well. next time we'll coordinate the red vic shows so we're on the same night! looks like you've got some shows coming up - i'll try to make one.
Hi Deborah.. Thanks for taking the time to listen! Great stuff you have especially "Where you..re going" I like the 6/8 beat on the song, nice chord progression... I hope you have a great week!! Have fun, Josh
The Arcadists on MTV? Free raffle for Snow Patrol concert tickets. Grant and Green in San Francisco this Thursday, July 23! Wharf to Wharf on Sunday in Santa Cruz.
We have a busy week this week, two shows, an MTV contest, a raffle, here's what's going on:
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The Arcadists is currently #3 in MTV's Best Breakout Bay Area Band ... we need your votes to win this thing!!! If we win, we have a good chance to play on MTV. Please click on the link, register, click "Judge" and vote. You may need to refresh the web browser page to see us as a choice (out of 4 bands). Thanks! http://www.ourstage.com/contests/3176-mtv-vma-best-breakout-bay-area
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Snow Patrol Concert Raffle and SF Gig!
Thursday, July 23, we are playing a FREE show where we are raffling off two tickets to see Snow Patrol in Concert at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA, Fri, Oct 16, 2009 08:00 PM
We'll also have some teaser CDs of our upcoming album, mixing is almost done, the art is done, jeez: day job anyone?
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Wharf to Wharf Race in Santa Cruz, 8am Sunday July 26
Sunday, July 26, we play the Santa Cruz Wharf to Wharf Race, so we'll be out on the street at 8am. We learned "Eye of the Tiger" just for this event, haha. Hope to see you there, as a visitor or as a blur running by. We'll be at 26th Avenue and East Cliff Drive.
"The six-mile race route is lined with a virtual gauntlet of entertainment...singers, dancers, clowns and jugglers... bands of every stripe...pep...dance...classical...raging sixties...su
that 'song circle' is a fancy way for saying 'collaboration' for making a new tune -if its in the either then we'll manifest it one afternoon for sure...maybe friday?
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