A lot of roads lead to Holly Brook. There's the hip-hop path, on which plenty of next-big-thing predictors got to know her through her collaboration with Fort Minor on The Rising Tide. Then there's the TV path, on which anybody with an ear for pop with staying power could have chosen between a couple of trails: both the NBC show Conviction and the WB series Related have featured her plaintive song "What I Wouldn't Give" off this, her debut. However you reach this piano-propelled 20-year-old star in the making, though, you won't be sorry. In the space of three songs, she recalls a decade's worth of singer-songwriters twice her age, and in an unhurried, stylish way that suggests she's doing it handily. Joni Mitchell is the association Brook was going for--she cites her as influence number one--but comparisons with the more obvious mentors can't come as much of a bummer. The Joni connection may surface yet: Like Blood Like Honey is surely a trickle in a long career to come.
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1 Giving It Up for You 4:03
2 Wanted 3:56
3 What I Wouldn't Give 5:15
4 Like Blood Like Honey 3:34
5 Again & Again 4:18
6 Curious 4:15
7 Saturdays 3:02
8 Heavy 4:24
9 Still Love 4:19
10 All Will Be Forgotten 4:15
11 Cellar Door 5:28
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