Angel in the House

The Story | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 20, 1993)
• Original Release Date: July 20, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B000002HCQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,330 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Story leaves us with a masterpiece!, June 6, 2000

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Jeff Williams "Jeff" (Schwenksville, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angel in the House (Audio CD)

The listeners of my favorite radio station (WXPN in Philly) voted this album the #1 of the year 1993 and its very hard to argue with my neighbors. Its a terrible shame that Jonatha Brooke and Jennifer Kimball went their separate directions after this record, because its simply beautiful.

The songs are a little mix of 1960's folk music with an underlying layer of jazz floating though the songs. Some of the songs are acoustic masterpieces, like "So Much Mine" and "The Angel in the House." Some are a flok-jazz blend like "Missing Person Afternoon" and "When Two And Two Are Five." And there's a beautiful a capella song called "In The Gloaming." Jonatha and Jennifer's voice blend so well together...they have similar styles and ranges, and the harmony is angelic.

Both of these artists have gone on to solo careers, and Jonatha Brooke is threatening to become nationally known. The Story was made in a time when both of the songwriters were still young and their talent was still developing. And it this was the sophomore effort at songwriting, all I can say is that it is scary to see these talents develop even further. Jonatha still performs many of her songs from this album in concert...so DON'T MISS HER SHOW is she comes to your town.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Heartbreakingly romantic., August 26, 2001

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LUKE AVANT (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angel in the House (Audio CD)

If you are true romantics at heart then you will no doubt be touched by the sensitivity in her writing and the soft, angular and unique harmonies she sings with her longtime writing partner Jennifer Kimball. Together they are "The Story" and they are amazing on "The Angel in the House" and "Grace in Gravity." Jonatha will blow you away ON HER SOLO CD "PLUMB" especially if you like Stevie Nicks, she is not country influenced like her she is more easy jazz and neo-folk instrumentally but she is just as insightful lyrically as Stevie and she is as heartbreakingly romantic lyrically as Wendy & Lisa. (If any of this rings a bell with you go and buy Wendy and Lisa's first cd right now!!) Jonatha is not as well known as sheryl, sarah, alanis and paula, for a good reason (she is too harmonically rich and too smart lyrically...she is not ever trite like them, no offense they are all talented but they all get trite enough to sell lots of records and their respective record companies are encouraging them to do so. So she is not as well-known. She probably has too much artistic integrity to care because disc after disc and now as a solo artist she hasn't sold-out. She gets very real in her songs, (and has the chords to back it up) and they do not have a simple story or superficial context all the time. Many do not have a happy "sing-songy" chorus...her songs are like real life, the one we are living, not like radio fodder where everything is rosy and sunny every minute of everyday of everyone's life.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brooke and Kimball - Angels of Boston Folk, January 1, 2001

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Mark Dante Troiano "The Lightworker's Union" (Malden, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angel in the House (Audio CD)

The Angel in the House is by far one of the most singularly fantastic albums of all time. The lyrical quality is top notch. The harmony is lush and beautiful, especially the graceful and complicated dissonneces. This is a Masterpiece of Contemporary Folk Music. No musician, no lover, no thinking, emotional human being should be without this CD. The Story, comprised of Jonatha Brooke (lead vocals / guitar) and Jennifer Kimball (harmony - not to be taken lightly) went to Amherst College and sang in their A Cappella Group The Sabrinas. In recent years the power duo has gone their seperate ways and each have continued to creat e beautiful music with Boston-based Folk solo and pop projects. The best songs on this disc are Missing Person Afternoon, Amelia, The Guilded Cage, In The Gloaming, and The Angel in the House.

"My mother moved the furniture When she no longer moved the man We thought nothing of it at the time..."