Jon Brooks

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20.But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do…

Poets may have more to say to us today than theologians and economists. The poet can offer an 
imaginative way of engaging the issues of our time, a way that speaks to the whole person. 
“There is no revolution without…

1. What was your musical vision going into No One Travels Alone, and how did that influence who you worked with on it? 

I’m always looking write songs that make others feel the pulse of the soul of the…

Singer-Songwriter Jon Brooks : An Interview

October 3, 2018  

By Mark Pavilons 

What most of us miss, Jon Brooks exposes. 

The accomplished singer-songwriter is more like a modern day standup philosopher, documenting the times. He’s a…

A songwriter with a rare gift for the poetic, Jon Brooks also possesses a ruggedly virile voice that is the perfect delivery vehicle for these well-crafted songs. They are connected by the corona (circular)  form, in which the last…

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW! 

Jon Brooks – “Todos Caminamos Por Este Caminito” 

 Heather Kitching 

 May 4, 2018 

“No One Travels Alone is a contrite apology to my 138 super fans the world over for 2014’s murder ballads album…

1. Jon Brooks – The Smiling & Beautiful Countryside (2015, Borealis Records) 

jonbrooks200Jon Brook’s 2012 album ”Delicate Cages” focused on themes of love and fear; and freedom and imprisonment. For the follow up, “The Smiling and Beautiful Countryside”, Jon…

Making the bodies count: Jon Brooks explores the dark traveller in new album

Singer-songwriter Jon Brooks set out to write a collection of Canadian murder ballads for his fifth and latest album, the Smiling and Beautiful Countryside, figuring he’d…

Toronto indie artist Jon Brooks is bringing his new collection of original, rural Canadian “murder ballads” to The Moonsine Café Wednesday (March 4). 

Brooks’ music circles around the Highway of Tears, Christine Jessop murder, domestic violence, mass shootings in…

Jon Brooks brings songs from his new album The Smiling & Beautiful Countryside to Halifax’s Company House on Saturday night. 

The Toronto-based musician revisits the folk/blues tradition of the murder ballad, with a collection of several new and original…

With past albums delving into such heady topics as poverty in the inner city and war stories, it may not seem surprising that downtown-based singer-songwriter Jon Brooks’ newest work contains more humour than his past endeavours. What…

 by Kerry Doole