Join Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, the mother-daughter travel team and publishers of Big Blend Magazines, for this episode of Big Blend Radio’s Champagne Sundays show, broadcasting live from the historic Homestead Inn in Twentynine Palms, Calfiornia.

This episode features California singer-songwriter Deborah Crooks who discusses her music and latest full-length album “The Department of The West.” A follow-up to her 2016 EP “Beauty Everywhere” and her work with the band Bay Station who released “Other Desert Cities” in 2018, Crooks continues to explores themes of natural history, family, and the #metoo movement, while also addressing the nature of land ownership and oNative American history, and relationship.

Thanks to the National Parks Arts Foundation for sponsoring this episode.