14. DEBORAH CROOKS: GRANDMA MISSION BLUES
From the "2010" CD. Words & music by Deborah Crooks (ASCAP) & Alex Walsh (BMI).
Produced by Ben Bernstein & Deborah Crooks.
Recorded at Tiny Telephone, San Francisco, CA.
Engineered by Scott McDowell.
Mixed by Ben Bernstein. Mastered by Michael Romanowski
Vocals, Deborah Crooks; organ, Art Khu; drums, Mike Stevens; bass, Ben Bernstein; mandolin, Kwame Copeland.
Crossed an ocean and got on a train
Stopped in the Big Easy where my brother lives
That’s what they called it, thought it was hard, hard hard
Didn’t think that it would be the way I live
Get up my daughter is crying
Gotta wash up just to prove I’m trying
All I know is I gotta give
Get up in the morning and give
Steam engine carried us across this land
Everyone came before said California was best
Big ocean, big sky, fresh fruit for the pie
Orange sun setting in that west
Training rocking, my daughter is crying
I gotta get up just to prove I’m trying
All I know is I gotta give
Get up in the morning and give
Alabama, Florida and Hampshire
Earthquake, storm and flood
I gotta get back to that Big Easy
Cause few things are stronger than blood
Strange language took me years to get
From mouths of strange faces staring through those doors
More love more money in this promised land
And everyone hopes they’ll score
But there’s never much money my daughter is crying
I gotta get up just to prove I’m trying
All I know is I gotta give
Get up in the morning and give
Alabama, Florida and Hampshire
Earthquake, storm and flood
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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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