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Thirteen years after her brush with radio-hit ubiquity, this bluesy-voiced New Yorker is asking questions somewhat less philosophical than ''What if God was one of us?'' ''I'll be your heaven/Oh, can't you feel it?'' she moans sensually on the title track of her latest disc Little Wild One, an earthy soul-rock set that redeems Joan Osborne's occasionally mushy songwriting with full-blooded singing and deep roots-music grooves. Her subject is life in NYC, but her longing roams free....full text |
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| Slantmagazine |
| Little Wild One is Joan Osborne's third album in as many years, but to many she's still a one-hit wonder. Osborne's mid-'90s hit "One of Us" helped lump her in with the Lilith Fair crowd, but the song wasn't completely representative of the singer's soulful, roots-rock debut, Relish, nor did it display the full range of her magnificent voice. For a singer who once boasted of her own vocal talents, her last two records, 2006's Pretty Little Stranger and last year's Breakfast in Bed, presented a more restrained approach, and while her latest effort reunites her with the team responsible for Relish (former Hooters members Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman, along with producer Rick Chertoff and bassist Mark Egan), the album continues in this vein; it isn't as robust—musically or vocally—as their first collaboration, where Osborne's full-bodied voice was a perfect match for Egan's bellowing bass notes and Bazilian's crisp guitar lines....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| Joan Osborne’s latest, her seventh studio project, is a tribute album. Little Wild One is not a tribute in the traditional sense, the type of record that finds an artist honoring and performing another’s music. The songs are all original with Osborne writing or co-writing nine of the eleven tracks. Yet, the record is essentially, in lyric and spirit, a tribute to several distinct ideas that Osborne pulls together with skill and sincerity....full text |
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