Joan Osborne - Little Wild One
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Artist: Joan OsborneEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-09-09
Music Label: Saguaro Road Records
Soundtracks:
- Hallelujah In The City
- Sweeter Than The Rest
- Cathedrals
- Little Wild One
- Rodeo
- To The One I Love
- Daddy-O
- Meet You In The Middle
- Can't Say No
- Light Of This World
- Bury Me On The Battery
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Free Music Review: Songs of redemption and transcendence: Joan Osborne's "Little Wild One" astonishes and moves.
Hit: 5 Stars
Joan Osborne has a brilliant discography of blues and folk rock and soul covers. She breaks new ground with "Little Wild One" with soulful and moving songs of love's redemptive power tinged with an atmosphere of spiritual transcendence. The theme is established with the opening track "Hallelujah In The City" - a hauntingly beautiful work of folk rock that is certainly among her best songs ever. If you are religious this song sounds like a prayer. If not, it sounds like a love song. Either way - it's drop dead beautiful. There are lyrics that call out areas of New York City. Is it a paean to the city of New York? She carries the theme directly with the next track "Sweeter Than the Rest" - another gorgeous song destined to be reckoned among her best. It, too, is about love's redemptive power and ambiguously references the city of New York, a lover, or something more transcendent. The lyrics are evocative, but just abstract enough. The theme of transcendent New York is made explicit in the 3rd track - the haunting and lovely "Cathedrals" (I'm running out of adjectives to describe how beautiful and otherworldly the lyrics and melodies of these songs are). It's a song about a lost angel in the city. This is just fantastic stuff and any fan of Osborne or folk rock in general will be thrilled.
The rest of the album doesn't quite carry this extremely high level of quality - although there are other good songs here. The transcendent New York theme is revisited in the final track "Bury Me on the Battery". "Daddy-O" takes us out to Coney Island and has an instrumental bridge with a haunted and far away organ sound that simultaneously takes us back to Coney Island's carnival heyday and makes us feel the loss of its passing. That sweet aching quality is a recurring theme in this album and helps to unify it. Other than the country song "Rodeo" which feels out of place here, it all hangs together with amazing cohesiveness and common thread.
Joan Osborne is a blues and folk rock diva of epic proportions in my book. For a little blond woman she has the ability to have her voice sound huge. In her debut, Relish, she showed astonishing vocal power. Back on 2005's "One Of Us" album she had the audacity to cover Aretha Franklin's 1968 hit and later the show stopping highlight of the "Blues Brothers" film: "Think". Not only did she rise to the occasion, she nailed it and gave Aretha's version a real run for it's money. Given my absolute reverence for the Queen of Soul, I was beyond impressed. On "Little Wild One" Osborne never quite gives us the full powerhouse vocal fireworks, but she has produced a beautiful moving album that shows her songwriting brilliance, hangs together well as an album, and succeeds brilliantly as musical entertainment.
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Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Joan Osborne reunites with the same team that worked on her 1995 top 5 hit, 'One Of Us', for Little Wild One. Long considered one of the greatest voices of her generation, Osborne has a passionate and wide fan base eagerly awaiting the true follow up to her three-time-platinum album, Relish.Folk Music CDs
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