{"id":15691,"date":"2016-08-31T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T21:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=15691"},"modified":"2016-08-31T15:58:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T22:58:15","slug":"song-premiere-jonatha-brooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2016\/08\/song-premiere-jonatha-brooke\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Premiere: JONATHA BROOKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Song Premiere: JONATHA BROOKE \u201cPUT THE GUN DOWN\u201d<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3><strong>Jonatha Brooke premieres \u201cPut the Gun Down\u201d\u2014the first song from her first studio album in eight years:\u00a0<em>Midnight. Hallelujah<\/em>. Out October 21<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15694\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jonatha-Brooke.jpg\" alt=\"Jonatha-Brooke\" width=\"660\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jonatha-Brooke.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jonatha-Brooke-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/273559428%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-1nktf&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<p>In the 11 new tracks of this new album, Jonatha Brooke brilliantly balances the soulfulness of her songs with rock, pop and jazz inflections, while maintaining though-provoking lyrics.<\/p>\n<p><em>Midnight. Hallelujah.<\/em>\u00a0was primarily recorded at\u00a0Sweetwater Studios\u00a0in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Produced by Brooke along with\u00a0Mark Hornsby,\u00a0Phil Naish, and\u00a0Eric Bazilian, the songs cover a wide sonic landscape and feature themes of faith, love, and addiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut the Gun Down\u201d is a story I am telling inside the bigger story of the epidemic of gun violence. I don\u2019t like to preach, so I made it a personal conversation with a character I made up. \u201cNobody done you wrong\u201d in the chorus was the best way I could get at some kind of detente with the vicious rhetoric that has become the norm.\u201d\u2014Jonatha Brooke<\/p>\n<p>Next week,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/\">Mmusicmag.com<\/a>\u00a0will feature a video from Jonatha Brooke\u2019s new album, along with a web-exclusive interview.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15693\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Album-art-Jonatha-Brooke.jpg\" alt=\"Album-art-Jonatha-Brooke\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Album-art-Jonatha-Brooke.jpg 330w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Album-art-Jonatha-Brooke-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Album-art-Jonatha-Brooke-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song Premiere: JONATHA BROOKE \u201cPUT THE GUN DOWN\u201d Jonatha Brooke premieres \u201cPut the Gun Down\u201d\u2014the first song from her first studio album in eight years:\u00a0Midnight. Hallelujah. Out October 21 In the 11 new tracks of this new album, Jonatha Brooke brilliantly balances the soulfulness of her songs with rock, pop and jazz inflections, while maintaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7725],"tags":[8073,8071,8067,6915,8069,7978,8074,8070,8072,8068,6734],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15697,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15691\/revisions\/15697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}