Joan Osborne is a ‘Little Wild One’ Saturday, September 6th 2008, 4:00 AM Joan Osborne sings about a lover on her new CD, “Little Wild One.” But it’s not one made from flesh and blood. It’s a soul composed of skyscrapers and subways, rivers and parks. It’s crowds and neighborhoods Osborne loves, that meeting place [...]
“Ironically, Little Wild One suggests Joan Osborne is anything but. Reunited with the writing and production team that helped craft her 1995 debut — Rick Chertoff, Rob Hyman, and Eric Bazilian – the new disc find her mellowed and venturing into the spiritual realms of its inspirational opener, “Hallelujah in the City.” Banded in autobiographical [...]
The Apple Quicktime Media Guide has given Joan its best featured spot for ‘Hallelujah In The City!’ Click here to view
“The lived-in scratchiness of her voice on “To the One I Love” and the tight vocal harmonies of “Meet You in the Middle” prove that Osborne’s still got one of the most spectacular voices in pop music today.” “Osborne’s mid-’90s hit “One of Us” helped lump her in with the Lilith Fair crowd, but the [...]
Entertainment Weekly calls the album “an earthy soul-rock set… with full-blooded singing.” Read further here
Featured in the NY Times’ annual Arts & Leisure fall preview this Sunday… Jon Pareles writes, “After many wanderings, including a stint with the Grateful Dead, Ms. Osborne has collaborated again with the songwriting and production team from her multimillion-selling 1995 album ‘Relish.’ Their new songs on ‘Little Wild One’ gleam with guitars and mandolin [...]
The September 15 issue of People Magazine gives ‘Little Wild One’ four stars out of four, calling it “a winning album that celebrates the sacred in the city” and praising “her rich vocals.” Read here
Joan Osborne performed at a benefit concert for wfuv.org – public from Fordham University – at the Cutting Room in Chelsea. She performed cuts from her new CD, “Little Wild One,” which will be released on September 9th.”I’m a big fan of gospel music, so I try to weave a little bit of that in [...]
Joan Osborne became a household name with the monster hit One of Us, a track from her 1995 album Relish. She has been releasing solid records ever since and her forthcoming seventh studio album Little Wild One reunires her with the team (producers/writers Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian and Rick Chertoff ) that made Relish a [...]
Joan featured at the top of Goombah’s Free Music Friday newsletter. Goombah will be also running a contest for the album. More to come on that. Feature page here