09. DEBORAH CROOKS: BITTERSWEET VALENTINE
From the "Little Bird" CD. Words & music by Deborah Crooks (ASCAP).
Produced, arranged & mixed by Art Khu.
Recorded at Lost Monkey Studios, Hayward, CA, and Art Cafe Studios, San Francisco, CA.
Engineered by Art Khu and Mike Stevens.
Mastered by Michael Romanowski at Michael Romanowski Mastering.
Vocals, Deborah Crooks; guitars, Art Khu; drums, Mike Stevens; bass, Ben Bernstein.
Ice cream cone on the street
I'm alone but on my feet
I think of you almost every day
Such a mystery how love can sway
Back and forth and one way
Won't the wind blow this want away?
Bittersweet valentine
The strongest love won't make you mine
Blues they come in every color
New shades you'll soon discover
Red and orange, green, off white
Paint the day, stain the night
Bittersweet valentine
The strongest love won't make you mine
Ice cream it melts ever faster
The whole mess, the whole disaster
Single, double, triple scoop
Sugar and love, send you for a loop
Up and down, double cross
Speed and thrills can't mask a loss
Density and clarity, fantasy and memory
Bittersweet valentine
The strongest love won't make you mine
Bittersweet valentine
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 DEBORAH CROOKS:
Bay Area songwriter Deborah Crooks has released three CD's of critically noted original music drawing on folk, rock, Americana and the Blues, including 2013's "Little Bird," described by New Music Charts Magazine “as a masterful piece of work." Her songs have also been included on the RockerGirl Discoveries CD, placed on the PBS series RoadTrip Nation, and finalists in the Earth Day Marin Song Contest and the EcoArts Awards.
Deborah’s diverse artistic career has included studying writing and poetics in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at The Naropa Institute, voice with Faith Winthrop (SF), Chloe Goodchild (UK) and Aambaprasad V Mysore (India), and yoga at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute (India). Living in the Bay Area, she performs throughout the Western US at venues and events including the Harmony Festival, MEOW Con, Cafe du Nord and Sunset Junction. Along with her solo work, she’s collaborated with Alex Walsh (Crooks/Walsh Blues); Kwame Copeland (KCDC); contributed prose and poetry to several stage productions by Deborah Slater Dance Theatre; toured the Southwest with fellow songwriter/yogini Jean Mazzei on The Great Idea Tour; read at Litquake and spoken about songwriting and creativity at Macworld and SXSW. Additionally, her written work has appeared in many print and online publications including No Depression, The Sun, Common Ground, and “The Thinking Girl’s Guide to Enlightenment.”
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