Mickey Hart, Joan Osborne & the Flying Other Brothers - Concert for Dave Obey, Regency Ballroom, Hyatt Regency, Washington, DC, 3-21-2004

I recently posted four albums of Joan Osborne singing Grateful Dead songs in concert with the band Phil Lesh and Friends in 2006. This is very similar. Two years earlier, instead of singing Dead songs with former member of the Dead bassist Phil Lesh, she did a concert where she sand Dead songs with former member of the Dead drummer Mickey Hart.

I know very, very little about this concert, and I could find almost no mention of it on the Internet. At some point I must have known something about it, because I put it on my "wish list" with the SoulseekQT file sharing program. After many months, I had forgotten all about it, and it showed up, allowing me to download it. 

Looking it up at discogs.com, I see that it technically was officially released at one point, but it seems it was a limited release and quickly went out of print. The record company that released it literally only ever released this one album. This was billed as the "Concert for Dave Obey," so I looked him up. It turns out he was a Democratic Congressperson in Wisconsin from 1969 to 2011. He was considered one of the most progressive people in Congress, which would explain why the likes of Obsorne and Hart performed a benefit concert that presumably helped raise money for his reelection.

That's about all I know. I don't know if more songs were played, or if anyone talked between songs, etc... If you know, please inform us. But what I do know is that it's great hearing Osborne sing Dead songs. And the song quality is excellent. By the way, I think Mickey Hart sang some lead vocals too, but he only did a bit of that since he's not known for his singing. Whoever played lead guitar did a very close imitation of Jerry Garcia's style, including the guitar tone.

This album is an hour and eight minutes long.

01 Sugaree (Mickey Hart, Joan Osborne & the Flying Other Brothers)
02 Scarlet Begonias - Fire on the Mountain (Mickey Hart, Joan Osborne & the Flying Other Brothers)
03 Queen Bee (Mickey Hart, Joan Osborne & the Flying Other Brothers)
04 I Know You Rider (Mickey Hart, Joan Osborne & the Flying Other Brothers)
05 Franklin's Tower (Mickey Hart, Joan Osborne & the Flying Other Brothers)
06 Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad (Mickey Hart, Joan Osborne & the Flying Other Brothers)

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The cover is the exact one from the official release.

Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne - Joan Osborne Sings Grateful Dead Songs, Volume 4 (2006)

I've already posted three volumes of Joan Osborne singing lead vocals on Grateful Dead songs with the band Phil Lesh and Friends. This the fourth, and unfortunately, last album in the series.

As with the others in this series, the entire tour was professionally recorded and released at the time, so the sound quality here is great. Also like the others, the songs are in chronological order from when they were played in concert.

Most of the songs here are Grateful Dead originals, but not all of them. "Let the Good Times Roll" and "In the Midnight Hour" are classic songs in their own right that were frequently covered by the Dead. "Blue Sky" was never performed by the Dead. However, it's by the Allman Brothers Band, another famous jam band from the same era, so it fits right in. Finally, just like the last volume, a Ryan Adams song was performed, "Peaceful Valley."

This album is one hour long, more or less exactly.

01 Attics of My Life (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
02 Here Comes Sunshine (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
03 Blue Sky (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
04 Reuben and Cherise (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
05 Lazy River Road (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
06 Let the Good Times Roll (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
07 Peaceful Valley (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
08 In the Midnight Hour (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)

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The cover photo shows Osborne at some point during this 2006 tour, but I don't know the details.

Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne - Joan Osborne Sings Grateful Dead Songs, Volume 3 (2006)

I've previously posted two albums of Joan Osborne singing Grateful Dead songs with Phil Lesh and Friends in 2006. Here's a third album. There's one more to come.

As I said with the previous volumes, there's a lot of charm in hearing how Jerry Garcia and Bobby Weir of the Grateful Dead originally sung these songs. But hearing Osborne sing them is a different thing altogether. Not only does she have a remarkable voice, but it's interesting hear a woman sing these songs. Plus, you still got very Dead-like jamming thanks to Dead bassist Phil Lesh and the other musicians.

All the songs here have soundboard level quality, due to the fact that all the concerts by this band from 2006 were officially released at one point. I've put them in chronological order.

This time, all the songs are Grateful Dead originals, except for "I Know You Rider" and "Turn on Your Lovelight." But the Dead played those two zillions of times. And "Magnolia Mountain" was originally by Ryan Adams, and was written after the Dead had already broken up.

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

01 I Know You Rider (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
02 Turn on Your Lovelight (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
03 High Time (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
04 Magnolia Mountain (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
05 Althea (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
06 Candyman (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
07 China Doll (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
08 Stella Blue (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)

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The cover is a photo of Osborne from the Bonnaroo Festival in 2006.

Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne - Joan Osborne Sings Grateful Dead Songs, Volume 2 (2006)

This is a second volume of Joan Osborne singing lead on Grateful Dead songs with the band Phil Lesh and Friends in 2006. There are four volumes in total.

Every concert Phil Lesh and Friends performed in 2006 were released digitally at the time, so everything here has soundboard quality. The vocals on "Shakedown Street" were rather low in the mix though. Maybe that was how it was at the concert, for whatever reason. But I fixed that using the UVR5 audio editing program.

All of the songs here are closely associated with the Grateful Dead. However, some of them happen to be covers for the Dead that they played in concert a lot. Only "New Speedway Boogie" and "Shakedown Street" were originals.

This album is an hour and ten minutes long. There are only six songs despite this album being well over an hour long due to lots of jamming.

01 Good Lovin' (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
02 Next Time You See Me (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
03 New Speedway Boogie (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
04 Morning Dew (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
05 Gimme Shelter (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
06 Shakedown Street (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)

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The cover photo shows Osborne with Phil Lesh at the Bonnaroo Festival in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2006. Osborne and Lesh were much further apart, but I moved them closer using Photoshop.

Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne - Joan Osborne Sings Grateful Dead Songs, Volume 1 (2006)

Singer-songwriter Joan Osborne had the honor of singing lead vocals with the Dead, the successor band to the Grateful Dead, in 2003. However, she didn't sing lead all that much, and did more backing vocals, because the band still had Bob Weir as a member, who had been one of the two main lead vocalists for the entire duration of the Grateful Dead's existence. By 2006, she was lead vocalist again for the related band Phil Lesh and Friends. This time, she did a lot more of the lead vocals. It also so happens that all of the band's concerts from this year have been made available with soundboard quality. So I've gone through those and picked out all the songs where Osborne sang lead. That resulted in four albums. Here's the first one.

Before I go further, I should explain why I've specifically sought out the songs sung Osborne. The Grateful Dead and successor bands have had many excellent lead vocalists over the years, most especially the two main originals, Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir. But those vocalists were known more for having character than technical prowess. Osborne, in addition to being a successful singer-songwriter in her own right, has one of those special voices, a diva voice, if you will, that can expertly sing just about anything. So it's quite something to hear Grateful Dead songs sung by someone of her caliber, while at the same time one got the instrumental prowess of bassist Phil Lesh and his band mates.

Speaking of band mates, in 2003, in addition to Lesh and Osborne, the band consisted of Larry Campbell (guitar, violin, slide guitar, mandolin, and vocals), Rob Barraco (keyboards and vocals), and John Molo (drums), and either John Scofield, Barry Sless, or Trey Anastasio (guitar).

The songs are generally Grateful Dead originals or covers closely associated with the band. "Nobody's Girl" is a rare case of an original written after the Grateful Dead came to an end in 1995.

The songs are in chronological order of the concerts they occurred in. The range here is from February to June 2006. You can find the exact details in the mp3 tags, as usual.

This album is an hour and 15 minutes long.

01 All Along the Watchtower (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
02 Caution [Do Not Stop on Tracks] (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
03 Sugaree (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
04 Nobody Girl (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
05 He's Gone (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
06 Cosmic Charlie (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
07 Mr. Charlie (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
08 Death Don't Have No Mercy (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)

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The cover photo of Osborne is from her time with Phil Lesh and Friends in 2006, but I don't know the exact details.

Joan Osborne - Listen - Non-Album Tracks (2015-2017)

This is another stray tracks album from Joan Osborne. I haven't found enough songs from after 2017 to fill up another album yet, so this is the last one, for now.

Only four of the ten songs are officially released. Three of those come from an album of Bruce Springsteen cover songs with the Waybacks. "Listen" is the other released song.

Most of the rest come from concert bootlegs. However, "You Didn't Treat Me Right" is a studio outtake. Like two songs on the previous stray tracks album for her, I don't think this has been made publicly available anywhere until now.

Of the remaining unreleased songs, "Jolene" was done in a studio for a radio station, so that sounds great. The rest are a little rougher, but are all good enough for my ears to merit inclusion here.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Cover Me - War (Waybacks with Joan Osborne)
02 You Didn't Treat Me Right (Joan Osborne)
03 I'm on Fire (Waybacks with Joan Osborne)
04 Dancing in the Dark (Waybacks with Joan Osborne)
05 Listen (Infamous Stringdusters & Joan Osborne)
06 Jolene (Joan Osborne)
07 Angel from Montgomery (Joan Osborne)
08 Freedom (Joan Osborne)
09 Little Red Corvette (Joan Osborne)
10 Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You (Joan Osborne)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15429721/JoanO_2015-2017_Listn_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken at a concert at the City Winery in New York City in February 2016.

Joan Osborne - Acoustic Grateful Dead Songs - StageIt, New York City, 11-21-2013

My plan is to post the rest of Joan Osborne's stray tracks albums, then start posting some other interesting albums I have of her music. But I was listening to this the other day, and couldn't resist wanting to post it out of order. It's a short Internet broadcast she did in which she played all Grateful Dead covers acoustically, with just a guitarist and keyboardist backing her up.

Osborne really knows Grateful Dead songs because she had the honor of being a lead vocalist for successor bands in 2003 (with the Dead) and 2006 (with Phil Lesh and Friends). She has a fantastic voice, as always, and really nails these versions. So this is a treat for fans of her music, Grateful Dead music, or both.

The sound quality is very good and clean. There was no audience, so no audience noise.

The one bummer about this recording is it seems they were playing to a time limit, judging by her comments between songs, and they had to keep it relatively short. The album is only 36 minutes long.

01 Mr. Charlie (Joan Osborne)
02 talk (Joan Osborne)
03 New Speedway Boogie (Joan Osborne)
04 talk (Joan Osborne)
05 Scarlet Begonias (Joan Osborne)
06 talk (Joan Osborne)
07 Alabama Getaway (Joan Osborne)
08 talk (Joan Osborne)
09 It Must Have Been the Roses (Joan Osborne)
10 talk (Joan Osborne)
11 I Know You Rider (Joan Osborne)
12 talk (Joan Osborne)
13 Ripple (Joan Osborne)

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The cover is a screenshot taken from a video of this exact performance. I added some generic psychedelic art in the background at the top and bottom.

Joan Osborne - Pull My String - Non-Album Tracks (2013-2015)

Here's the next stray tracks album from Joan Osborne.

This one has something special. A kind person who wishes to remain anonymous sent me a couple of songs that are outtakes from a 2015 recording session: "Pull My String" and "Fingerprints." I'm pretty sure they've never been publicly available anywhere before, until here and now. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing they're originals, since I don't recognize them as covers. They're pretty good songs, so it's a mystery why they were never put on one of her albums.

Most of the other songs here are also unreleased, but they're generally covers of well known songs. Three of the songs have been released, and come from tribute albums: "Baby Don't You Do It (Don't Do It)," "Late for the Sky," and "Glory Days." All the others have excellent sound quality, even though some of them are from concert bootlegs.

There are three bonus tracks, which also come from concert bootlegs. The first couple of years of this blog, I probably would have included them, because their sound quality is decent. But I think I've raised my standards a bit since then, and they don't quite make the cut.

This album is 42 minutes long, not including the bonus tracks.

01 That's Where It's At (Joan Osborne & the Holmes Brothers)
02 Baby Don't You Do It [Don't Do It] (David Bromberg & Joan Osborne)
03 [Just Like] Starting Over (Joan Osborne)
04 Late for the Sky (Joan Osborne)
05 My Word Is My Bond (Joan Osborne & the Holmes Brothers)
06 Tomorrow Never Knows (Joan Osborne)
07 Pull My String (Joan Osborne)
08 Glory Days (Waybacks with Joan Osborne)
09 Fingerprints (Joan Osborne)

Let It Be Me [Edit] (Joan Osborne & Richard Thompson)
Respect Yourself (Joan Osborne & Shovels & Rope)
Tracks of My Tears (Joan Osborne & Keb Mo)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15202830/JoanO_2013-2015_PllMyStrng_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken at the Santa Anita Park Racetrack in Arcadia, California, on November 2, 2013. Originally, there was a microphone to the side of her head, but I used Photoshop to erase it.

Joan Osborne - I Feel So Good - Non-Album Tracks (2009-2012)

Okay, with ZippyShare dying at the end of the month, I've decided to give Mega a shot. Let's see how this goes.

Here's another in a long series of stray tracks albums from Joan Osborne. It's the usual mix of songs from lots of different sources, but this one happens to have a lot of Beatles covers. Five of the eleven songs are from the Beatles ("Lovely Rita," " I Am the Walrus," "Hey Bulldog," and "Julia") or John Lennon solo ("Whatever Gets You thru the Night"). That's mostly due to Osborne being a regular guest at an annual John Lennon tribute concert in New York City. Two of those are officially released, and the rest have excellent sound quality.

Two more songs ("I Feel So Good" and "Boys, You're Welcome") are bonus tracks from her 2012 album "Bring It on Home." Two more,  "Stella Blue" and "God Bless the Child" are unreleased, but again, the sound quality is excellent. A couple others are from various artists albums.

There's a bonus track, a nice unreleased version of the Pink Floyd classic "Comfortably Numb" done as a duet with Dar Williams. Unfortunately, it's only a bonus track due to poor sound quality.

This album is 42 minutes long, not counting the bonus track.

01 The World Beneath the Waves (Joan Osborne)
02 Lovely Rita (Joan Osborne & Cheap Trick)
03 What Becomes of the Broken Hearted (Ian Moss with Jimmy Barnes & Joan Osborne)
04 I Am the Walrus (Joan Osborne)
05 Whatever Gets You thru the Night (Joan Osborne)
06 Stella Blue (Joan Osborne)
07 God Bless the Child (Joan Osborne)
08 Hey Bulldog (Joan Osborne)
09 I Feel So Good (Joan Osborne)
10 Boys, You're Welcome (Joan Osborne)
11 Julia (Joan Osborne)

Comfortably Numb (Joan Osborne & Dar Williams)

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The cover photo was taken in a concert on April 13, 2012 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Joan Osborne - Real Love - Non-Album Tracks (2005-2008)

Here's the next in a long line of Joan Osborne stray tracks albums. I know she's not that famous, but she's a great vocalist with excellent musical taste.

All but one of the performances here have been officially released. That one, "Baby, It's Cold Outside," was taken from a TV show and sounds as good as the others.

These come from the usual mix of bonus tracks, songs from various artists compilations, songs from other artists' albums, and the like. Three of the songs, tracks one, three, and five, come from Osborne's own studio album, "Christmas Means Love." The thing is, that's a Christmas-themed album, and I'm not big on those. Since I make these albums mainly for myself, I took the few Christmas songs I liked the most and mixed them in with the others.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 Christmas Must Be Tonight (Joan Osborne)
02 Dream a Little Dream [Demo] (Joan Osborne)
03 Great Day in December (Joan Osborne)
04 Real Love [Demo] (Joan Osborne)
05 Children Go Where I Send Thee (Joan Osborne)
06 Everybody Needs a Friend (Joan Osborne)
07 Baby, It's Cold Outside (Joan Osborne & Bo Bice)
08 Those Memories of You (Holmes Brothers & Joan Osborne)
09 Every Breath You Take (Joan Osborne)
10 I Don't Want to Be with Nobody but You (Joan Osborne)
11 If the End Has Come (Joan Osborne)

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The cover photo comes from an appearance at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2007.

Joan Osborne - A Tribute to Jerry Garcia, The Hamilton, Washington, D.C., 10-15-2022

Here's an acoustic concert from just a couple of weeks ago. Joan Osborne and a couple of her long-time guitar players performed a concert of Grateful Dead covers (aside from the encore of her sole big hit "One of Us"). The concert was supposed to have taken place on August 1, 2022, to mark exactly eighty years since Grateful Dead lead guitarist Jerry Garcia was born. However, Osborne came down with Covid at the time, so the concert had to be postponed.

I wasn't going to post this, except for the fact that the sound quality is so excellent that it deserves to be heard by more people. I don't know if this was a radio broadcast or web broadcast or what (at some point she commented that the show was being professionally recorded), but the sound is flawless.

Osborne is uniquely qualified to sing Grateful Dead covers because she sang with the surviving members of that band at different times, especially in 2003 and 2006. I plan to post albums of some highlights from those shows when my chronological posting of her albums reaches that point. She also did a short solo concert of acoustic Dead covers in 2013. I plan on posting that here eventually too.

This concert is an hour and 36 minutes long.

01 Alabama Getaway (Joan Osborne)
02 talk (Joan Osborne)
03 Deep Elem Blues (Joan Osborne)
04 talk (Joan Osborne)
05 Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (Joan Osborne)
06 He's Gone (Joan Osborne)
07 talk (Joan Osborne)
08 New Speedway Boogie (Joan Osborne)
09 talk (Joan Osborne)
10 Ripple (Joan Osborne)
11 talk (Joan Osborne)
12 Shakedown Street (Joan Osborne)
13 talk (Joan Osborne)
14 Sugaree (Joan Osborne)
15 talk (Joan Osborne)
16 Stella Blue (Joan Osborne)
17 Eyes of the World (Joan Osborne)
18 I Know You Rider (Joan Osborne)
19 talk (Joan Osborne)
20 The Attics of My Life (Joan Osborne)
21 One of Us (Joan Osborne) 

The download is split into two. Here are the links to the two parts:

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The cover photo is of the exact concert featured here.

Joan Osborne - Stand Back - Non-Album Tracks (2003-2005)

I have a ton of Joan Osborne music to post, so I'm going to try to prioritize that a bit more. Here's the next in a long series of her stray tracks albums.

At this point in her career, Osborne was wearing a few musical hats. She had her solo career going on, of course. But she also got involved singing with the Funk Brothers, the backing group to most of the Motown hits from the 1960s and early 1970s. She was featured in the documentary movie about them called "Standing in the Shadows of Motown." The first two songs here are unreleased performances she did with the Funk Brothers on a tour promoting that movie.

She also began getting involved with various successor bands to the Grateful Dead around this time. That's a whole separate thing, in my opinion, so I'll post her music related to that at another time.

The two songs with the Funk Brothers mentioned above are unreleased (but come from an excellent sounding soundboard bootleg). The last two songs here also are unreleased, and come from concert bootlegs. The first of those, "On the Old Kentucky Shore," was originally done by her as a duet with Ricky Scaggs for a various artists album celebrating the music of country musician Bill Monroe. I didn't like that version, because it featured a lot more of Scaggs than it did of Osborne. But I found this live version instead that has only Osborne singing all the lead vocals, so I used that one. The last song, "Turtle Blues," was most famously done by Janis Joplin.

Unfortunately, these last two songs don't sound as great as the rest. But I used some sound editing tricks to improve them as much as possible. Also, for "Turtle Blues," it seems a section of the song in the middle was missing. So I cut out all of that verse to make the missing section less obvious.

As for all the songs in between, they are all officially released. Generally, they come from Osborne's appearances on other people's albums, or on various artists compilations. But also, she did a Christmas album around this time. Personally, I don't like the whole thing, so I took the songs I did like and added them to this album, as well as the next stray tracks album in this series.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 For Once in My Life (Joan Osborne & the Funk Brothers)
02 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Joan Osborne & the Funk Brothers)
03 Lover Man (Greg Osby with Joan Osborne)
04 Stand Back (Joan Osborne)
05 Just to Be Alone with You (Joan Osborne)
06 Santa Claus Baby (Joan Osborne)
07 Christmas in New Orleans (Joan Osborne)
08 Spoonful (Joan Osborne & Vivian Campbell)
09 What Do Bad Girls Get (Joan Osborne)
10 On the Old Kentucky Shore (Joan Osborne)
11 Turtle Blues [Edit] (Joan Osborne)

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The cover photo features Osborne at a public event in 2005.

Joan Osborne - An Uncommon Love - Non-Album Tracks (1998-2003)

It's been a slow process, but I'm making my way through Joan Osborne's career with stray tracks albums. She's sometimes tagged as a 1990s one hit wonder ("One of Us"), but that's just the tip of the iceberg for her long and fruitful music career. 

Mostly due to her remarkable voice, lots of people want to have her on their records. This album has numerous examples of that. In fact, she collaborates with other big name musicians for ten of the 12 songs here! Generally, these are cover versions done for various artists compilations or other people's albums.

The only unreleased song is a cover of the soul classic "Ooh Child." This was done with soul great Isaac Hayes for a short-lived TV show that he hosted. There's no loss of sound quality on that track compared to the others here.

By the way, in case you don't know who the Funk Brothers were, they were the backing back for dozens and dozens of big Motown hits in the 1960s and early 1970s. The two songs with them here are from the 2002 documentary movie "Standing in the Shadows of Motown." If you're a fan of that music at all and haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend that you do.

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 An Uncommon Love (Chieftains with Joan Osborne)
02 Hand In Mine (Rob Hyman & Joan Osborne)
03 I'm Just a Bill (Isaac Hayes & Joan Osborne)
04 At Last (Joan Osborne)
05 Chimes of Freedom (Bob Dylan & Joan Osborne)
06 Raglan Road (Chieftains with Joan Osborne)
07 My Back Pages (Jackson Browne & Joan Osborne)
08 Ooh Child (Joan Osborne with Issac Hayes)
09 [Love Is like A] Heat Wave (Joan Osborne & the Funk Brothers)
10 What Becomes of the Brokenhearted (Joan Osborne & the Funk Brothers)
11 Do I Ever Cross Your Mind (Joan Osborne)
12 Nobody's Fault but Mine (Joan Osborne with the Holmes Brothers)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16376017/JOANOSB1998-2003AnUncmmnLve_atse.zip.html

The photo used for the album cover was taken during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on January 17, 1996 at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

Joan Osborne - Strenuous Acquaintances - Non-Album Tracks (1995-1998)

Last week, I posted a Joan Osborne late 1990s "lost album" called "Curds and Whey." It's a real lost album in the sense that there was an album planned for release with that title that roughly contained those songs, nearly all of which remain officially unreleased until this day. She also has a bunch of songs from those same exact years that weren't part of that album, enough to make up a totally different stray tracks album. That's what this is.

I was planning on posting this in a few weeks, so I could post albums from a variety of other artists in the meantime. But just a few days after I posted "Curds and Whey," I found an updated source for four of the songs on it. One snag with that album is that nearly all the songs come from concert bootlegs, and some of them sound merely good, not great. But this new source sounds much better, so the better quality of four of the ten songs boosts the sound quality of the album as a whole. Thus, I'm posting this now with the hopes that anyone reading this will also be interested in getting the upgraded version of "Curds and Whey."

The link for that album is here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/09/joan-osborne-curds-and-whey-various.html

Anyway, let's get back to the music contained here. In 1995, Osborne had a big hit single - "One of Us" - and an accompanying big hit album, "Relish." Technically, that was her second album. as she released a live album in 1991, but she went from relatively unknown to a star in a short time. Once she was famous, offers for her to appear on movie soundtracks and various artists compilations and the like flowed in. This collects those types of non-album tracks. 

The first three are "Relish" bonus tracks that weren't released until two decades later. The first two appear to be originals. Then there's her hit "One of Us." I've included it because it's a live acoustic version that sounds significantly different (plus I didn't have a better place to put that bonus track). "Brick House" is a cover of the famous 1970s Commodores hit. Apparently, this was considered for inclusion on her "Curds and Whey" album, but I put it here because it would have made that other album too long, and I think it fits better here with covers of other famous songs.

"Strenuous Acquaintances" is an original that also was considered for the "Curds and Whey" album. However, it was released on a movie soundtrack in 1996, so I doubt it would have been included on that album when it should have been released in 1998 or 1999. "Spooky" is another classic cover, and it also was considered for the "Curds and Whey" album. But she released two different versions of it. I put one version on my version of that album, and the other version here.

That leaves a couple of duets included on other people's albums ("Beautiful Side of Madness" and "Passin' Thru"), and more covers of classics that came out on various artists collections ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You.")

All in all, I think this is a strong collection. In my opinion, Osborne's top musical attribute is her stellar, soulful voice, so she naturally does well when singing covers of great songs.

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 Here Comes What's Coming (Joan Osborne)
02 Mighty One (Joan Osborne)
03 One of Us [Live Acoustic] (Joan Osborne)
04 Brick House (Joan Osborne)
05 Beautiful Side of Madness (Joan Osborne & Terrell)
06 I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Joan Osborne & Stevie Wonder)
07 Strenuous Acquaintances (Joan Osborne)
08 Can't Take My Eyes Off of You (Joan Osborne)
09 Spooky (Joan Osborne)
10 Passin' Thru (Joan Osborne & Ricky Scruggs)

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For the album cover, I used a photo of Osborne taken backstage at a concert in Chicago in 1995.

Joan Osborne - Curds and Whey - Non-Album Tracks (1995-1998)

I plan on posting a bunch of Joan Osborne stray tracks albums soon. But this is not exactly one of those. Instead, I'd call it a lost album. A couple of weeks ago, I posted another lost album by her, from the early 1990s, called "Chick." This is a similar lost album from the late 1990s. Like "Chick," nearly all of the songs are originals. I'll post a stray tracks album soon covering the same time period that contains songs from movie soundtracks, various artists compilations and the like that are mostly cover versions.

In 1995, Osborne had a big hit with the song "One of Us" and with the album "Relish." But then she didn't release a follow-up album until 2000. That was a remarkable amount of time, considering the importance of wanting to follow up a hit while the iron was still hot. What the heck happened?! As you'll see from listening to this album, she had a good album of original songs that was ready to be released by 1997, or 1998 at the latest. 

What happened was the record company. You can read an account of it here:

Joan Osborne is dropped from Mercury Records | EW.com

Here's my summary. At the time, Osborne was signed to Mercury Records. They were delighted with her unexpected hit "One of Us," and naturally wanted her to have another hit just like it. But Osborne was (and is) a serious musician, and didn't want to be put forward as a pop star. Here's a quote (from the linked article) by David Lowery, a member of the band Cracker who worked with her during that time: "I know she was bummed out by her relationship with her label. I think they totally misunderstood her as an artist. She's a great rock female voice, a down and dirty, ballsy singer, and they wanted her to do poppy, VH-1 stuff."

So the label flat out refused to release her new album, even though "Relish" went triple platinum in the US. She refused to remake herself the way they wanted, so a stalemate ensued. Then things went from bad to worse in the late 1990s when Mercury Records merged with another record company, and the few supporters she had in the company left. So she was dropped from the record company altogether by the start of 2000.

Think about how crazy that is. She'd sold millions of records, but the record company wouldn't allow her to release a follow-up AT ALL, for five years! To make matters worse, they owned the rights to all the songs she'd recorded for her planned follow-up, and they refused to let her release them for an album on another label. Thus, the songs here are all still officially unreleased in any form. Instead, she had to come up with a different bunch of songs for her next album, "Righteous Love," which was released in 2000. (Apparently, two songs from her planned follow-up album, "Hurricane" and "Baby Love," did manage to make it onto that album somehow, so they're not included here.)

The album she wanted to release was supposed to be called "Curds and Whey," which is a phrase mentioned in the first song, "Sensitive," and is also well known from the "Little Miss Tuffet" nursery rhyme. Unfortunately, none of the studio versions of any of these songs have been made public on bootleg. But, fortunately, she did most of them in concert, and there are bootleg versions of most of those.

Like her lost album "Chick," most of what I know about this album comes from a Wikipedia page that only exists on the Portuguese version of Wikipedia for some reason. That can be found here:

Curds and Whey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I used the song list from that page to find as many of the songs as I could. I was able to find versions of all of them except for "Hillbilly." However, the sound quality of one song, "Beautiful Things," is pretty rough, so I've only included that as a bonus track. Also, I didn't include her cover of the classic Commodores funk hit "Brick House" because the album was already pretty long without it, and it didn't fit that well. I've put a version of that on the stray tracks album that covers this same time period. Plus, as I mentioned above, "Hurricane" and "Baby Love" weren't included because versions of those went on her next album.

That leaves 48 minutes of music, if you don't count the bonus track. All of the songs are originals, with the exceptions of "Spooky," a 1960s classic by Classic IV, and "Mind Full of Worry," a 1995 song by the relatively obscure band the Aquanettas. "Spooky" has "[Alternate Version]" in the title, because she did another version around the same time that I'm putting on the stray tracks album mentioned above, and apparently that's the original one she did.

It seems she didn't play these songs in concert that often. In some cases, I was only able to find one decent version. So the sound quality ranges from good to very good, but isn't great. Hopefully someday the legal issues will be resolved and the studio versions of these will be officially released. Until then, this is probably the best version that can be made out of what is publicly available. 

Joan Osborne has gone on to have a long, successful, and critically acclaimed music career that is much more than just the one-hit wonder status of "One of Us," so she gets the last laugh over her record company. But still, if I were her, I'd be pissed at how her early career got treated. If some version of this album had been released, odds are good she would have kept more of her momentum going, instead of pretty much having to start over in 2000. And the failure to release "Chick" and all the originals on that is another big lost opportunity.

01 Sensitive (Joan Osborne)
02 Platform Shoes (Joan Osborne)
03 Hammerhead (Joan Osborne)
04 Libertine (Joan Osborne)
05 Strange Things (Joan Osborne)
06 Mind Full of Worry (Joan Osborne)
07 La La (Joan Osborne)
08 Wedding Day (Joan Osborne & Cracker)
09 Century (Joan Osborne)
10 Spooky [Alternate Version] (Joan Osborne)

Beautiful Things (Joan Osborne)

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For the cover art, I found a poster of a concert she did at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco from 1996 that I liked. I had to make some changes though. For starters, as usual, I had to make some major clips to get the rectangular poster shape to fit in a square space. Then, the name of the supporting act was written near the bottom in the space I chose, so I overwrote that with the "Curds and Whey" album name.

Joan Osborne - Chick - Non-Album Tracks (1992-1994)

Sometimes, putting together an album for this blog is easy; other times it's really hard. This one was really hard. First, let's review the early history of Joan Osborne's musical career. She put out a live album called "Soul Show: Live at Delta 88" in 1991. But then she didn't put out her second album until 1995. That album, "Relish," was a critical and commercial success, and contained her big hit "One of Us." But it turns out she planned to release a different album in 1993 or 1994, to be called "Chick." 

This is a genuine "lost album," but few people have ever heard of it. Luckily, I found a Wikipedia page about it. Not the English Wikipedia though! For some reason, the page only exists in the Portuguese version. Here's the link (you might want to use Google Translate to convert it into English):

Chick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I don't why the album was never released. Instead, an EP with only three songs came out in 1993, called "Blue Million Miles." Two of the songs planned for it, "Crazy Baby" and "Pensacola," were later included on the "Relish" album in different versions. As a result, I haven't included those here. Another song, "Strenuous Acquaintances," came out on a 1996 movie soundtrack, so I haven't included that here either (though it will find a home on a later Joan Osborne stray tracks album).

Using that Portuguese Wikipedia page as my main guide, I've managed to find most of the songs planned for the "Chick" album. There are no leaks of studio sessions from this time period, so I resorted to using live versions. However, I have included the three studio songs on the "Blue Million Miles" EP, since they were planned to be included on the album too. I couldn't find two of the songs, "Live for Yourself" and "I Should Have Quit You." But I found two other original songs from the time period not mentioned: "With Less than Love" and "Let Your Hair Down Mama."

So far, so good. But I put that together years ago and never posted it on this blog. The reason was sound quality. Frankly, a big chunk of the versions I found simply didn't sound very good. But recently I dug deeper, and managed to find soundboard versions for every song. However, that alone didn't fix the sound problem, because some of the songs had bad mixes, with the lead vocals buried. The breakthrough that came for me was my recent discovery of the Spleeter sound editing program. Using that, I was able to boost the lead vocals on four of the songs. (I also edited down "Open So Wide (All Night)" by three minutes, because its nine-minute length went on too long, in my opinion.)

So yeah, this one was tough to put together. But in the end, I think the result is a very listenable album. I believe all the songs are originals, with the exception of "His Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles," which is a Captain Beefheart cover. What surprises me is just how good these songs are, yet how rare they are. For some of them, such as the last three, I was only able to find one bootleg recording, despite the fact that there are dozens of bootlegs from the early 1990s. I would think that some of these would end up being the kinds of songs that she would play in concerts for decades, but for whatever reason even Osborne seems to have forgotten these songs as soon as the big success of "Relish" happened.

This album is 49 minutes long.

Now that I've posted this one, hopefully it will allow me to move forward and post a long series of stray tracks albums from her. The next one in the series is another lost album from the later 1990s called "Curds and Whey" that is equally interesting, in my opinion.

01 His Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles (Joan Osborne)
02 Billie Listens [To Your Heartbeat] (Joan Osborne)
03 The World Is a Genius [Edit] (Joan Osborne)
04 What You Gonna Do [What about Me] (Joan Osborne)
05 Shack Up with Me (Joan Osborne)
06 Enemy in the Sky (Joan Osborne)
07 How Red Was My Kiss [Edit] (Joan Osborne)
08 With Less than Love [Edit] (Joan Osborne)
09 Open So Wide [All Night] [Edit] (Joan Osborne)
10 Let Your Hair Down Mama [Edit] (Joan Osborne)
11 Madison (Joan Osborne)

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I had two ideas for the album cover. One was to use the cover of the 1993 EP "Blue Million Miles." The other was to use a photo of her from that time period. The EP cover was abstract art, without any sign of her. I thought it was interesting, yet lacking. Ultimately, I decided to combine the two ideas. I used the EP cover as the basis, but for a grey area in the middle, I superimposed a photo of her in concert from a concert at the Wetlands club in 1992. I also had to update the text on the cover.

Joan Osborne - Sendesaal Radio, Bremen, Germany, 11-9-2002

I'm a big fan of Joan Osborne. I have many stray tracks of hers to post. However, I've put those on the back burner because she's sang all over the place and I sometimes stumble across songs I want to add in. I don't want to do what I did with the likes of Sheryl Crow and Norah Jones, where I've had to keep updating and expanding the albums I've posted as I find more stuff.

Anyway, here's something that falls out of the range of those stray tracks albums. There are two outstanding features of his concert. For one, the sound quality is outstanding. It was recorded for a German radio station, so it sounds as good as an official live album. The second thing is that it's mostly acoustic. In fact, there were only two people on stage: Joan Osborne just doing lead vocals, and her long time guitarist Andrew Carillo on guitar. But it's a bit more complicated than that, because she played pre-recorded backing tapes for some of the more lively songs. That said, even when the backing tapes are used, the sound is still minimalistic. I like that, because it helps one focus on the quality of her singing.

This concert took place shortly after the release of her 2002 album "How Sweet It Is," which consisted entirely of covers of famous soul songs. As a result, all but three songs here are covers.

The concert is rather short. The bootleg I originally got this from added two songs to the end, which actually date from 2000 instead of 2002 like the rest. But I've chosen to keep them because they fit the minimalist sound so well. Plus, they have stunning sound quality, and they also fit with the general theme of doing soulful covers. The only snag is that "The Tears of a Clown" gets cut off before the end. These come from the eTown broadcast, and I've noticed those often end with a song getting cut off because they'll play music until the last second of the show. So I'm guessing that's what happened here, and this is no known recording of the rest. 

The concert is an hour and 14 minutes long if you include the two extra songs at the end, and an hour and eight minutes if you don't.

Here's a list of the original artists for each song:

01 Why Can't We Live Together - Timmy Thomas
03 I'll Be Around - Spinners
05 Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix
06 How Sweet It Is [To Be Loved by You] - Marvin Gaye
08 Smiling Faces Sometimes - Undisputed Truth
09 One of Us - Joan Osborne
11 Love's in Need of Love Today - Stevie Wonder
12 War - Edwin Starr
14 St. Teresa - Joan Osborne
16 Everybody Is a Star - Sly & the Family Stone
18 Make You Feel My Love - Bob Dylan
19 Righteous Love - Joan Osborne
20 Man in the Long Black Coat - Bob Dylan
21 The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
22 Brick House - Commodores

 Here's the usual song list:

01 Why Can't We Live Together (Joan Osborne)
02 talk (Joan Osborne)
03 I'll Be Around (Joan Osborne)
04 talk (Joan Osborne)
05 Bold as Love (Joan Osborne)
06 How Sweet It Is [To Be Loved by You] (Joan Osborne)
07 talk (Joan Osborne)
08 Smiling Faces Sometimes (Joan Osborne)
09 One of Us (Joan Osborne)
10 talk (Joan Osborne)
11 Love's in Need of Love Today (Joan Osborne)
12 War (Joan Osborne)
13 talk (Joan Osborne)
14 St. Teresa (Joan Osborne)
15 talk (Joan Osborne)
16 Everybody Is a Star (Joan Osborne)
17 talk (Joan Osborne)
18 Make You Feel My Love (Joan Osborne)
19 Righteous Love (Joan Osborne)
20 Man in the Long Black Coat (Joan Osborne)
21 The Tears of a Clown (Joan Osborne)
22 Brick House (Joan Osborne)

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The cover photo comes from a 2002 appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."

Joan Osborne - The Ardmore Music Hall, Ardmore, PA, 10-3-2020

I think Joan Osborne is great, one of the most talented singers active today.  I haven't posted much from her so far, except for three albums of live covers early in her career. But that's just because I have so many things to post from so many musicians that I have a hard time keeping up. I plan on posting a lot more from her later. But this rises to the top because it's awesome and it's a concert that took place just the day before yesterday.

Osborne released a new studio album of all original material in mid-September 2020, called "Trouble and Strife." I must say, I'm really surprised at how excellent the album is! If you're a fan of her at all, please check it out. In my opinion, her greatest attribute has been her voice. Her songwriting has only been okay, so I've often preferred when she's done cover material. But all the songs on the new album are written by her, with the exception of two co-writes. I'm surprised that she's really stepped up her songwriting, because that's a highly unusual thing to happen to someone 25 years after their debut album!

By the way, one thing I really like about her new album is that maybe half of the song deal with politically progressive themes. She's never been political with her songwriting before, so that's another surprise twist this far into her career. One of the songs, "Hands Off," is all about President Trump. I included it on my recent compilation of songs critical of Trump, "Rock Trump Out."

Anyway, the reason I mention all that is because this concert leans heavily on material from her new album. In fact, she plays every single song from it but one ("Meat and Potatoes," which is unfortunately missed, because I think it's one of the best). Her previous album consisted entirely of Bob Dylan covers, and she does five of his songs from that, plus a Grateful Dead cover ("Brokedown Palace"), and well as two songs from her excellent 1995 debut album. But she didn't play her one big hit from back then, "One of Us."

The concert took place in very strange circumstances. It's not a home concert, but it's very close. It took place with a full band at a club, but the audience is VERY small due to social distancing restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic. At one point she mentions there were only about ten people in the audience! TEN! It sounds like it too. Occasionally, you can clearly hear individual comments by people in the audience when get responded to by Osborne, as if she was playing to a few friends in her living room.

In terms of sound quality, it's excellent, as good as it gets. It was professionally videotaped from multiple angles and put on YouTube, which is where I found it. I didn't have to do much editing, except sometimes adjusting the volume of her between song banter.

If you want to find out what Osborne has been up to musically in recent years, and check out the songs from her new album, this is an ideal way to go. The concert is exactly two hours long.

01 Trouble and Strife (Joan Osborne)
02 talk (Joan Osborne)
03 What's That You Say (Joan Osborne)
04 talk (Joan Osborne)
05 Highway 61 Revisited (Joan Osborne)
06 talk (Joan Osborne)
07 Spider Web (Joan Osborne)
08 talk (Joan Osborne)
09 Whole Wide World (Joan Osborne)
10 talk (Joan Osborne)
11 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Joan Osborne)
12 talk (Joan Osborne)
13 Take It Any Way I Can Get It (Joan Osborne)
14 talk (Joan Osborne)
15 Buckets of Rain (Joan Osborne)
16 St. Teresa (Joan Osborne)
17 talk (Joan Osborne)
18 That Was a Lie (Joan Osborne)
19 talk (Joan Osborne)
20 Hands Off (Joan Osborne)
21 High Water [For Charley Patton] (Joan Osborne)
22 talk (Joan Osborne)
23 Boy Dontcha Know (Joan Osborne)
24 Panama (Joan Osborne)
25 talk (Joan Osborne)
26 Brokedown Palace (Joan Osborne)
27 talk (Joan Osborne)
28 Tangled Up in Blue (Joan Osborne)
29 talk (Joan Osborne)
30 Serve Somebody (Joan Osborne)
31 Never Get Tired [Of Loving You] (Joan Osborne)
32 talk (Joan Osborne)

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The cover art photo is a screenshot from the YouTube video of this exact concert.

Various Artists - Can't Be Here Now - Mother's Day Special Home Concert, 5-10-2020

In late March 2020, singer songwriter Billy Bragg wrote a song about the difficulty of being separated from loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. He called it "Can't Be There Today," and posted it on YouTube. From that, he came up with the idea to have a special home concert on Mother's Day, May 10, 2020, to help people celebrate that day in these weird times. The concert is named "Can't Be Here Now" as a play on that song title.

A lot of the best singer songwriter types joined in, recording one or two songs from wherever they happened to be hunkered down, and then sending in their videos. So I think this is unique in my music collection in that this "concert" has no fixed single location. Some of the musicians spoke a little bit before or after their songs, and others didn't. Most of the songs have some connection to a mother's day or at least a mother theme, but a few do not. It's a pretty loose gathering of performances, with no fixed rules.

No less than seven of the artists are ones that I've posted albums of here at this blog: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rosanne Cash, the Indigo Girls, Jorma Kaukonen, Joan Osborne, KT Tunstall, and Loudon Wainwright III. There are some other big names for this type of music as well, such as Bragg, Steve Earle, Rufus Wainwright, and Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields. I have to confess that I wasn't that familiar with the others, but hopefully if you listen to this you'll discover some new artists, just as I have.

Since this is a collection of home recorded videos, the audio quality is variable. I did my best to adjust the volume and improve the mix whenever I could. The result is pretty good overall. But there were a couple of significant problems I couldn't fix. Valerie June recorded her song in the great outdoors. That looked nice on video, but late in the song a big gust of wind came along and blew on the microphone for about thirty seconds, rendering that part of the song unlistenable. Luckily, it was just a repeat of the chorus, so I was able to salvage the song by editing that part out. Some of her talking had to be cut out due to more wind.

Also, the Indigo Girls played their best known song "Closer to Fine." But the vocals of the lead vocalist Emily Saliers was way down in the mix compared to the guitar and the other vocalist Amy Ray. I couldn't do anything to fix that, so it's a rather unusual version.

The concert is nearly two hours long. If you don't like some of the artists and/or songs, you can edit your version down to just the ones you do like, and you'll probably still have a fairly lengthy album.

Oh, and by the way, I just posted the fourth of Norah Jones's home concert albums a day ago. It turns out I missed including one song and got the name of another song wrong. So if you've downloaded that one, I recommend you do it again, now that I've fixed those things.

01 Can't Be There Today (Billy Bragg)
02 The Sunken Lands (Rosanne Cash)
03 talk (Fink)
04 My Love's Already There (Fink)
05 Buckets of Rain (Joan Osborne)
06 talk (Loudon Wainwright III)
07 White Winos (Loudon Wainwright III)
08 talk (Loudon Wainwright III)
09 Oedipus Rex (Loudon Wainwright III)
10 talk (Loudon Wainwright III)
11 talk (Todd Snider)
12 Enjoy Yourself (Todd Snider)
13 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
14 Late for Your Life (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
15 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
16 A Heart Needs a Home (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
17 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
18 talk (Andrew Bird)
19 What Shall I Feel My Love (Andrew Bird)
20 talk (KT Tunstall)
21 I Want You Back (KT Tunstall)
22 talk (KT Tunstall)
23 Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (KT Tunstall)
24 talk (Jorma Kaukonen)
25 I Am the Light of This World (Jorma Kaukonen)
26 talk (Amy Helm)
27 Sing to Me (Amy Helm)
28 talk (Amy Helm)
29 Yakety Yak (Amy Helm)
30 talk (Mountain Goats)
31 Love Cuts the Strings (Mountain Goats)
32 talk (Mountain Goats)
33 talk (Steve Earle)
34 Devil's Right Hand (Steve Earle)
35 talk (Stella Donnelly)
36 Season's Greetings (Stella Donnelly)
37 Hammer (Shovels & Rope)
38 This Ride (Shovels & Rope)
39 talk (Joseph Arthur)
40 The Movies (Joseph Arthur)
41 The Day the Politicians Died (Stephin Merritt)
42 talk (Rufus Wainwright)
43 Peaceful Afternoon (Rufus Wainwright)
44 talk (Rufus Wainwright)
45 Tired of America (Rufus Wainwright)
46 talk (Rufus Wainwright)
47 talk (Valerie June)
48 Sadie [Edit] (Valerie June)
49 talk (Valerie June)
50 talk (Hamilton Leithauser)
51 The Garbage Men (Hamilton Leithauser)
52 talk (Indigo Girls)
53 Closer to Fine (Indigo Girls)
54 talk (Billy Bragg)
55 I Keep Faith (Billy Bragg)
56 talk (Billy Bragg)

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The video of the entire concert is on YouTube, if you want to watch it as well as hear it. (Just search for key words in the title.) So I could have used screenshots from that. However, if I did that, I would have to favor some artists over others, since there's no way I could fit them all in without having them look tiny. So instead I used the playbill that was promote the show. I made some changes, including squishing the entire thing horizontally to make it fit into a square space. I also redid the names of the artists, since there were about four of them that joined in late and so didn't get mentioned. But there's all mentioned here.

Joan Osborne - Under the Covers, Volume 3 (1993-1998)

Here's the third, and apparently final, version of my Joan Osborne series "Under the Covers." As with the previous two, these are all live cover versions of classic songs.

It's the last, because Osborne put out an album of mostly original material, "Relish," in 1995. Then, starting in 2000, she began putting out more albums of mostly or all original material. As a result, she's had long stretches where she's done little to no covers in concert, and when she does covers, they tend to be the songs from this series or covers from her albums. I will have more material like this to post eventually, but not after a long gap in her career.

If you know the two previous albums in this series, you should know the deal. Osborne sings her soulful ass off, as usual. Maybe the only significant difference is that a few of the songs here are more recent and/or obscure. "Little Angel, Little Brother" is a Lucinda Williams song from 1992. "People Have the Power" is a Patti Smith song from 1988. "The World Is Mine" is a Cracker song from 1998 played with Cracker that year.

01 Papa Was a Rolling Stone (Joan Osborne)
02 Little Angel, Little Brother (Joan Osborne)
03 Son of a Preacher Man (Joan Osborne)
04 [Sittin' On] The Dock of the Bay (Joan Osborne)
05 Brick House (Joan Osborne)
06 Bring Me Some Water (Melissa Etheridge & Joan Osborne)
07 On Broadway (Joan Osborne)
08 Beast of Burden (Joan Osborne with Tony Rich)
09 People Have the Power (Joan Osborne)
10 Spooky (Joan Osborne & Isaac Hayes with David Sanborn)
11 The World Is Mine (Joan Osborne with Cracker)

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The cover art is based on a photo of Osborne in concert in Chicago in 1995.