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Produced by Ben Bernstein & Deborah Crooks. This recording was made possible in part by The Bay Bridged Recording Grant.

All songs words & music by Deborah Crooks except for “Grandma Mission Blues” & “Joy words by Deborah Crooks & music by Alex Walsh;  “It’s All Up to You” words & music by Deborah Crooks & music by Lasse Honkonen.

Featuring Deborah Crooks, vocals; Kwame Copeland, acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin; Mike Stevens, drums & percussion; Tim Perdue, electric bass; Alex Walsh, acoustic guitar “Sunday Best”; Art Khu, organ “Grandma Mission Blues”; Ben Bernstein, acoustic bass “Grandma Mission Blues” & “Sunday Best”; backing vocals “Let’s Move”; Theremin “It’s All Up to You”; John Mazzei, piano, organ “Let’s Move,” “Falling” & “Someone Needs You Now”; Michael Romanowski, pump organ “Sunday Best”; Tatiana Ecoiffier, viola, “It’s All Up to You”

Recorded at Expressions, Emeryville, CA, Petting Zoo Studio, Oakland, CA and Tiny Telephone, San Francisco, CA. Mixed and engineered by Ben Bernstein at Petting Zoo Studio and Scott McDowell at Tiny Telephone Mastered by Michael Romanowski, San Francisco, CA

 ©2010 Bird in the Tree Music (ASCAP)

Deborah's full-length CD produced by Ben Bernstein features  11 original tunes including "Where You're Going," and "Miss Me Sometime."

Featuring "Turn It All Red" & "Cafe La Vie" (produced by Ben Bernstein) and early drafts of  "Land's End" & "Raising Cain".

Take two songwriters, a cold winter, a guitar and heartache and you get the Crooks/Walsh Blues. After meeting on the San Francisco songwriter circuit, sharing gigs as well as a love of Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Muddy Waters, Deborah and Alex decided to collaborate. The resulting Crooks/Walsh Blues EP contains five originals that stay true to the raw & rootsy aesthetic of the duo’s shared musical heroes while highlighting their own unique blend of California blues.

2003 5-songs ep produced by Roberta Donnay featuring "Dream Me" and "Answers." 

"5 Acres" exemplifies the California native's tenacious commitment to her path as an artist in search of truth and its expression. Exploring themes of identity, love and faith, "5 Acres" spans a wide emotional range. Backed by a stellar cast of musicians, each song demonstrates a careful attention to lyric honed by Deborah's lifetime of writing.