Joan Osborne - The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 1

A new album dedicated as a tribute to Dylan's prowess

Songs of Bob Dylan unleashes Joan Osborne's sizable gifts as a vocalist

Multi-platinum singer and songwriter Joan Osborne releases her ninth studio album, Songs of Bob Dyan on September 1, 2017. On Songs of Bob Dylan Osborne unleashes her sizable gifts as a vocalist and interpreter upon Dylan's celebrated canon with performances honed by Osborne's time spent performing "Joan Osborne Sings The Songs Of Bob Dylan," two critically acclaimed two-week residencies at New York City's Café Carlyle in March 2016 and 2017.

Unconstrained by any notion of trying to imitate or surpass Dylan, Osborne felt free to play with the songs' arrangements, a process that was also enabled by the virtuosity of Osborne's collaborators, guitarist Jack Petruzzelli (Patti Smith, The Fab Faux) and keyboardist Keith Cotton (Idina Menzel, Chris Cornell), who performed with her at Café Carlyle, and with whom she co-produced the album.

The album spans Dylan's beloved standards from the '60s and '70s ("Masters of War," "Highway 61 Revisited," "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35," "Buckets of Rain," "Tangled Up In Blue") to some of Osborne's favorites from his later albums, including "Dark Eyes" (from 1985's Empire Burlesque), "Ring Them Bells" (from 1989's Oh Mercy), "Tryin' To Get To Heaven" (from 1997's Time Out of Mind), and "High Water" (from 2001's Love and Theft).

Songs of Bob Dylan is a follow up to the singer's 2014 album, Love and Hate, and 2012's Grammy-nominated Bring It On Home. AllMusic has called her "the most gifted vocalist of her generation and a singer who understands the nuance of phrase, time, and elocution." The Kentucky native famously got her start performing her own songs in New York City's downtown rock clubs, around the time that she began to rediscover Dylan's work with Oh Mercy. In 2003, Osborne joined the surviving members of The Grateful Dead and had the chance to sing with Dylan, their co-headliner. More information can be found at https://www.joanosborne.com/.

 

Tangled Up In Blue

Rainy Day Women #12 & #35

Buckets of Rain

Highway 61 Revisited

Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)

Tryin’ To Get To Heaven

Spanish Harlem Incident

Dark Eyes

High Water (For Charley Patton)

You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

Masters of War

You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

Ring Them Bells

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