Jonatha Brooke

Merging evocative folk, melodic pop, and an edgier roots-rock sensibility, singer/songwriter/guitarist Jonatha Brooke began releasing music in the early 1990s, first as a member of duo the Story and more enduringly as a solo artist. Though credited to Jonatha Brooke & the Story, she made her solo debut with 1995's Plumb before cracking the Billboard 200 with her third set of original songs, 2001's Steady Pull. A year later, she performed two songs for the Disney film Return to Never Land. In 2008, Brooke issued The Works, which paired her original music with previously unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics, and an album based on her own one-woman play, My Mother Has 4 Noses, arrived in 2014, reaching the Billboard Americana/folk chart's Top Ten. ~ Marcy Donelson