The interweaving, intuitive harmonies of The Story's Jonatha Brooke and Jennifer Kimball are mesmerizingly beautiful. Add a top-notch, sympathetic band (guitarist Duke Levine, bassist Mike Rivard, keyboardist Alain Mallet, and drummer/producer Ben Wittman) and a bunch of probing, emotional songs, and the result is this heartfelt release. This is ...
Jonatha Brooke's perseverance has paid off. Like Aimee Mann, she's maneuvered a broken staircase of fluctuating acceptance, band breakups, and record label shakeups with nimble feet and a consistent songwriting vision. Now, she's arrived on the top floor landing with Back in the Circus, a typically audacious effort that showcases her singing and ...
In a 1996 concert promoting her slickly produced major-label record 10 Cent Wings, Jonatha Brooke told her audience, "It's not folk music anymore." Two years later, Brooke shrugged off the album's disappointing commercial showing and the dissolution of her relationship with MCA, formed her own record company, and released Live. It was folk music ...
From the recorders and whistles that open "So Much Mine," to the Latin rhythms of "Fatso," The Angel in the House is a fiercely and unapologetically feminist album that addresses, among other themes, maternity, anorexia, and the underlying horrors of domestic life. Both in her spirit and in her narrative manner, Jonatha Brooke, who wrote almost ...
Continuing her standing as an independent artist, Jonatha Brooke kicks off the millennium with Steady Pull, the second release on her own Bad Dog Records. Steady Pull is at once both inspiring and upsetting. The inspiration is easy to glimpse; it's a wonderful record, smart and catchy, interesting and fresh. The frustration lies not with Brooke, ...
Produced by Jonatha Brooke and Bob Clearmountain, Careful What You Wish For is a big, ringing bombastic guitar-crunching collection of new songs by Brooke. It has neither the loopy vulnerability of Back in the Circus nor the renegade adventurousness and hunger of Steady Pull. It's obvious that Brooke wanted to rock it up this time out (at times ...
On the first two albums by the Story, Jonatha Brooke wrote all the songs, sang lead vocals, and played acoustic guitar. The other half of the Story, Jennifer Kimball, merely sang background vocals. So one might expect that the first Story album without Kimball (and the first with Brooke's name in front of the band's) would not sound that different ...
Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village in the '60s traces and tributes the bohemian Mecca's part in the emergence of singer/songwriters and the folk revival during the '60s. The initial passion and sense of discovery in this music remains undimmed, as politically and emotionally conscious songs by Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Tim Buckley, Judy ...
In March of 2004 singer/songwriter Jonatha Brooke spent ten days at the Anspacher in the Public Theater in New York, performing songs from her four solo albums as well as the two she had released as part of the duo the Story. The highlights of the show were recorded and released as the aptly titled Live in New York, which came out two years later. ...
With the release of 10 Cent Wings, Jonatha Brooke completed the transition from her band the Story to a solo career (after two Story albums and one as "Jonatha Brooke and the Story"). She also made a musical transition from jazzy folk-pop to something much more radio-friendly. Modern rock radio was glutted with female singer-songwriters in the mid ...
Snow Angels: A Hear Music Holiday Collection is mostly composed of adult alternative-type folk-rockers performing well-known and traditional Christmas songs. The biggest names here are Joan Osborne ("Children Go Where I Send Thee") and Jonatha Brooke ("The Holly and the Ivy"); other artists present include Grace Griffith, Louise Taylor, Laurie ...
This CD has highlights of the first annual Martha's Vineyard Singer/Songwriter retreat. Sponsored by Christine Lavin, it was recorded live at the Wintertide Coffeehouse. Standout cuts are Jonatha Brooke's "Dog Dreams," and Pierce Pettis's cover of Mark Heard's "Nod over Coffee," and James Mee's title cut. ~ Richard Meyer, All Music Guide
When Laura Nyro passed away from ovarian cancer in spring 1997, it was as if she was given a new life. The collection Time and Love: The Music of Laura Nyro is one of the many highlights of that brief musical revival, but an earnest, impressive effort. Fourteen female artists came together to celebrate Nyro's understated warmth and desire, ...
A full decade after Billy Bragg and Wilco teamed up to set to music unrecorded lyrics of Woody Guthrie on Mermaid Avenue, now Jonatha Brooke has done the same. Unsurprisingly, she takes quite a different approach than they did, starting with her choice of co-producer, Bob Clearmountain, whose mountain of production and engineering credits have run ...
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