The Music:

I must admit that I've never heard of Jonatha Brooke before recieving this new DVD-A album out of the blue one day. When I was notified that I would have the chance to review it, I thought that there was a mis-spelling and that the artist's name was Jonathan. Imagine my suprise when there was no mis-spelling and that Jonatha is a folk/rock artist whose work I really enjoyed quite a bit.

It would be easy to call her work a little bit Sarah McClachan, a little bit Sheryl Crow and a little bit Alanis Morisette, but her mixture of interesting musical arrangements and wonderfully emotion-driven vocals make her work something that stands out on its own. Even some of her more downbeat songs such as "Walking" eventually pick up again - the non-rockers on the album feel like they've had a bad day, but eventually pick themselves up and dust themselves off before continuing on. Not...Read the entire review