Jennifer Brown - Vera

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Title: Vera
Artist: Jennifer Brown
Audio CD: 1999
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: R&B
Format: Free Lossless Audio Codec


Track Listing:

01. Tuesday Afternoon
02. Two in the Morning
03. Walls
04. Paper Crown
05. Alive
06. Nobody Knows Me Like You Do
07. Naked (When I Take off All My Clothes)
08. Chico (Painted Hands)
09. Trembling
10. Rose Colored Glasses
11. Past Life
12. Daddy's Gone


Artist Direct Review:
Jennifer Brown releases VERA, her third album on BMG.

The 25 year-old artist steps out and to the left of her previous releases on a multitude of levels. Writing every song on the album (unlike her past records) and even co-producing a track (Daddy's Gone), Brown delivers in full-measure, bringing forth a more mature, confident and relaxed presence to each song. With VERA, she has branched out and developed in a way that any bored pop artist would dream of: to not take yourself too seriously and just be real.

VERA is a diverse collection of attention-grabbing songs written by Brown and propped by the album's production: an unusual collage of Hip-Hop and slow Jungle loops, electric T-Wah, live strings (arranged by Stockholm's Janson & Janson Brothers), acoustic guitars, DJ scratches, and a vocal performance that penetrates to goose-bump proportions.

This is 21st century pop. Produced by young Philadelphia song-writer Billy Mann (Chaka Khan, Carole King, Celine Dion, Diana King, Az Yet and Boyzone), VERA pulls together a unitarian co-operative of musical genres that subtly blend folk story-telling with 70's soul, contemporary hip-hop/R&B; with alternative rock chord structures and employs a fresh lyrical standard as the thread to stitch this album. All this with absolute pop accessibility.

What is most striking is the open vulnerability in Jennifer Brown's voice both as lyricist and vocalist