?Singer/songwriter/guitarist Jonatha Brooke began issuing albums that merged folk and pop during the early 1990s, first as a member of a female duo named the Story and later as a solo artist. Brooke formed the Story (originally called 'Jonatha & Jennifer' during the duo's early years) along with another vocalist, Jennifer Kimball, who attended Massachusette's Amherst College with Brooke in the early '80s. Despite playing regular local gigs during their college career, the girls never issued any recordings...   [ read more ]

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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 again, and her audience responded. The live set quickly sold more copies by mail order than 10 Cent Wings had sold in stores. Brooke's l...   [ read more ]

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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 making this set sound more like an Alanis Morisette record wanting to be latter-day Pat Benatar), but the nature of so many of these s...   [ read more ]

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