Shorefire sent the writer for Muruch.com out to Mountain Stage last week to cover Joan’s performance. Read her review below:
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“Though I loved Yamagata’s music before and certainly after the show, I was mostly excited to see Joan Osborne. I’ve been a fan of Osborne since her debut Relish was first released, and I saw her [...]

“Shortly after sunrise one Tuesday last month, tragedy visited my backyard. A yelp and a crash broke the early-morning silence and led my husband to discover our upstairs neighbor unconscious in the garden.
She’d fallen through the railing of the back stairs landing to the concrete below. Horrible doesn’t begin to capture the scene, and her [...]

JOAN OSBORNE EARNS ACCLAIM FOR ‘LITTLE WILD ONE’ ALBUM AND TOUR
Joan Osborne completed an acclaimed national tour recently, performing songs from her new album ‘Little Wild One’ to a standing room only audience in New York. Osborne’s new album and tour have drawn recent raves from around the country.
Praise from the road:
“Good taste, passion, [...]

“Hallelujah in the City” opens with a mandola and combined with Osborne’s voice gives the song a country gospel sound but then starts to rock in as the narrator moves into the city: “in the churches of Brooklyn/ underneath the Chelsea lights/ in the Battery Park, and up in Morningside Heights.” “Sweeter Than The Rest” [...]

Atlanta Show
“While Relish seemed to be a product of the period it was made in, Little Wild One seems to be an album made for Joan. The slower-paced, bluesy tone fits her image as a singer who has grown more mature and gotten in touch with what she enjoys as a performer.”
Original Fanbolt.com Article
Portland Show
“Rodeo [...]