Jonatha Brooke
b. 23 January 1964, Illinois, USA. Initially recording with the folk pop duo Story, singer-songwriter Brooke has earned several comparisons with Rickie Lee Jones for her work. Trained as a ballet dancer, she first played rock music as a 13-year-old bass player with a local rock band called Science Function, which included her biology teacher. However, her first experience of Joni Mitchell, whose unusual tunings and textures have become an abiding influence, changed her musical reference points. She became entranced by Rickie Lee Jones after interviewing her for the US magazine Performing Songwriter. The Story were effectively a duo of Brooke with associate Jennifer Kimball, a creative partnership that spanned 12 years. After two albums with the Story, Kimball departed, in the same week that the duo were dropped by Elektra Records despite sales of over 100,000 for 1993's The Angel In The House and a favourable critical reception.
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Albums
- (2008) The Works
- (2007) Everything I Wanted
- (2007) Live
- (2007) Back In The Circus
- (2007) Careful What You Wish For
- (2007) Live In New York
- (2007) Steady Pull
- (2007) What We Are
- (2007) Steady Pull
- (2007) Everything I Wanted
- (2007) Gilded Cage
- (2007) It Matters Now
- (2007) Careful What You Wish For
- (1999) Live
- (1997) 10 Cent Wings
Top Tracks
- Because I Told You So
- Eye In The Sky
- Ten Cent Wings
- Linger
- Crumbs
Related Artists
- Aimee Mann
- Tracy Chapman
- The Cars
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- 'Til Tuesday
- Throwing Muses
- Paula Cole
- Augustana
- The Lemonheads
- Aerosmith
- The Pixies
- The J. Geils Band
- Boston
- Buffalo Tom
- Del Fuegos
- Human Sexual Response
- Jonathan Richman
- Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
- Mission Of Burma
- Six Going On Seven
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