Singer-Songwriter Jonatha Brooke

For Crying Out Loud

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.6 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On this week's special guest episode, Lynette and Stefanie welcome singer-songwriter & guitarist Jonatha Brooke to the show. Jonatha talks to the ladies about: Getting her start in the Boston area, going solo, getting dropped from her label, taking care of her mother, performing during covid, and making some new musicals & music. Jonatha also performs some of her songs live for Lynette and Stef.

Go to Jonatha’s website JonathaBrooke.com for tour dates and follow her on all social media channels @JonathaBrooke

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, we have a very special Thursday show planned.
0:21.4	We have a great guest on our Zoom and by the way, right before we started the show, Stephanie
0:27.2	said that Jonathan Brooke is the singer-songwriter, the great Jonathan Brooke is in on our Zoom and right
0:35.5	before we started the show, Stephanie said she is my Bruce Springsteen. She's like, you have no
0:44.0	idea. Like she, I love Jonathan Brooke and so Stephanie, why don't you, yeah, so hi,
0:53.1	Jonathan. Hi Stephanie. Hi, thank you so much for joining us today. We're very excited. Pleasure. I'm
1:01.5	very excited myself. So we, you don't know this, but we go way back to the story days. So Jonathan
1:08.8	was a part of a duo called the story way back in the very late 80s. Would you say is that when
1:15.8	you guys got together? Yeah, I mean, our first record came out in 1991 was Grace and Gravity. So
1:24.2	yeah, we were like, puttin' around Boston in the very late 80s. So probably around Angel in the
1:30.8	House, that was the second, your second release with the story. I became very obsessed. So I'm gonna,
1:38.1	like, you know, certain songs catch you. I don't know, your music really spoke to me still does
1:43.6	and your voice really spoke to me. And then, um, so you started in Massachusetts?
1:50.9	Yep, I'm from Boston, grew up there, went to school there and actually met my partner in the
1:55.6	story, Jennifer at Amherst College. And after school, we ended up moving back to Boston. And,
2:02.6	you know, playing pretty much every church basement, in Boston, because it was a very
2:10.0	full-key singer-songradery kind of scene and a great place to sort of get your feet under you.
2:15.4	Um, but we were both doing other things. She was a graphic designer and I was a modern dancer and
2:20.3	a nanny and a cleaning lady. And it was just this crazy time of piecing things together. And then
2:25.7	we got this record deal and that, that was sort of the impetus to drop the other things and
2:31.4	do musical time. So how did you get the record deal? I mean, you're just, you're playing, you,
2:36.4	you know, you're good. But you're, I know you were like a big dancer. So how did you, how did that,
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