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| | Little Wild One | | | Music Artist : | | Joan Osborne | | Music Style : | | Singer-Songwriters | | Record Label : | | Saguaro Road Records | | Release Date : | | 2008-09-09 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Hallelujah In The City
2. Sweeter Than The Rest
3. Cathedrals
4. Little Wild One
5. Rodeo
6. To The One I Love
7. Daddy-O
8. Meet You In The Middle
9. Can't Say No
10. Light Of This World
11. Bury Me On The Battery
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Little Wild One has my heart
Submitted on: 2009-03-27 |
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| I've been a fan of Joan since Relish, and loved her last cd (more of an alt-country flavor). This cd has the most beautiful arrangements, and her voice is a thing of beauty. Every song on here is a gem - I've had the CD on constantly since I received it. I can see this being an album I love for years to come. |
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 Aside from Joan's voice, this CD is nothing special.
Submitted on: 2009-03-11 |
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| I bought this CD hoping to get some wonderful new Joan Osborne rock music, along the lines of what she gave us with the "Relish" and "Righteous Love" albums. But none of the material included here resopnates as deeply or powerfully as the music on those two albums. As a Joan fan, I am sorely disappointed. Here's hoping Joan someday makes her third rock masterpiece, but this CD isn't it. |
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 Magic Happens, Again!
Submitted on: 2009-02-03 |
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I really admire Joan Osborne. I was delighted to hear that she had decided to work with the team that brought us Relish: Eric Bazilian, Rob Hyman, William Wittman, Rick Chertoff and Mark Egan playing bass. When I first heard Eric's mandolin on track one, I knew I was going to be lead on a musical journey I would no doubt enjoy. This is not Relish, but tracks one, two and three are all superb. That's worth the price of the CD!
Joan has soul, one of the finest voices in contemporary music, and has great song ideas, but having Eric and Rob at her back, she can reach the heights of the Cathedral where she hoped she would stay, post Relish. I had heard rumors for the past few years that this album was going to be made, but it just kept getting delayed. Finally I found out through the grapevine that Joan had been in Rob's Elm Street Studio with Eric, and I knew that magic would inevitably happen with two of the most gifted songwriter/producers I know, and Bazilian/Hyman, known to many as the core of the Philly band, The Hooters, can make magic when given enough canvass on which to paint.
On first listen, I was not seized with anything that seemed to blow me away (reference The Hooters recent smash single "I'm Alive") but after a few listens, this album really grows on you, and now I can't stop playing it.
This is a more nuanced album, with a very spartan production, which I know Joan insisted upon, as Eric and Rob, left to their own devices, would have embellished most of tracks four through eleven. Though Cathedral is the money shot, I love listening to the elegant chord changes Eric and Rob injected into the first two songs. These are songwriters who know their craft, and are at the top of their game--still. But when you hit the third song, you get swept into the chorus on Cathedral which dances in your head for days after listening...."In the Cathedral's of New York and Rome, there is a feeling you should just go home, and spend a lifetime, finding just where that is."
Well done! Thank you, Joan, Eric & Rob! This album is a gift, and a bit of a lesson in music...if you get the right talent in a studio, magic happens. Joan knew that Eric and Rob and the team that brought us Relish would get her back to where she wanted to go. This is really fine work by some very talented and gifted artists who care about making good music for all the right reasons. If you are a fan of Joan's, you'll love this CD. Also, I'm an MP3 junkie, but bought the CD as Eric and Rob are fastidious about production quality, which I knew would be sacrificed in an MP3 download. I was not disappointed. Enjoy! |
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Love this woman
Submitted on: 2009-01-28 |
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| Can't really explain it - I just love her voice, her style. If you liked "Relish" you will like this CD! |
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Songs of redemption and transcendence: Joan Osborne's "Little Wild One" astonishes and moves.
Submitted on: 2009-01-05 |
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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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