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| Artist: Joan Osborne
Label: Saguaro Road Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 1664
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 19666
UPC: 610583243628
EAN: 0610583243628
ASIN: B001C0NMXO
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Hallelujah In The City | | • | Sweeter Than The Rest | | • | Cathedrals | | • | Little Wild One | | • | Rodeo | | • | To The One I Love | | • | Daddy-O | | • | Meet You In The Middle | | • | Can't Say No | | • | Light Of This World | | • | Bury Me On The Battery |
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Product Description
Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Joan Osborne reunites with the same team that worked on her 1995 top 5 hit, 'One Of Us', for Little Wild One. Long considered one of the greatest voices of her generation, Osborne has a passionate and wide fan base eagerly awaiting the true follow up to her three-time-platinum album, Relish.
Album Description
Critically acclaimed sing/songwriter Joan Osborne reunites with the same team that worked on her 1995 top 5 hit "One of Us" for "Little Wild One." Long considered one of the greatest voices of her generation, Osborne has a passionate and wide fan base eagerly awaiting the true follow up to her three-time-platinum album Relish. Joining her on her 2008 album, Little Wild One, are Eric Bazillian and Rob Hyman (members of the Hooters)as her studio band, producer Rick Chertoff, and drummer Steve Holley. On these all new songs Osborne uses her powerhouse voice to give fans some great contemporary Rock and Pop with her signature twist of Soul.
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 Songs of redemption and transcendence: Joan Osborne's "Little Wild One" astonishes and moves. January 5, 2009
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.
"If you dig deep enough..." December 28, 2008
The title of this is actually the beginning of a quote from Joan Osborne on her website: "If you dig deep enough into any genre, you find that they cross over." That statement has been the theme of Osborne's musical career over the past decade and a half. And while I've always been a casual fan, it was only recently, with this release, that I began paying close enough attention to recognize what a rich and varied catalog Joan Osborne has built. While so many artists who experience early success spend the rest of their careers trying to replicate it again and again, Osborne has used 1995's "Relish" as an opportunity to "dig deep" not only into other genres of music but also, and most stridently, into her own seemingly bottomless well of talent. The result has been a musical journey from the streets of Manhattan, to Lilith Fair, through Nashville, Motown, Dusty Springfield's Delta, to India and, with "Little Wild One," right back home to New York City which these songs celebrate with all of the energy, enthusiasm and magic of a concert in Central Park, with that peerless skyline glowing behind her and her magnificent band. Much has been written about this being a reunion with her "Relish" team, but the truth is that this is a record born not of it, but of the rich musical journey Joan has returned from, one which she will hopefully continue. All of the growth and influences are in evidence here, and we are the beneficiaries. Welcome home!
 Solid all the way through, but a victim of expectations December 26, 2008
"Little Wild One" is musically complex and still enjoyable to listen to. It reflects a great deal of musical diversity and maturity. It did not, however, live up to my own expectations, and I'm left wanting more from it than it delivered.
I love Joan Osborne's voice, both her literary one and her vocals. I am also a long-time fan of Eric Brazillian and Rob Hyman's work. I had high expectations for this album, and maybe that's the problem. After "Relish, this artist took a new path, and I was glad I followed her. I was completely open to what she produced, and she created some amazing albums.
With the reuniting of this team, I was hoping for an album with more vocal power and intensity than "Little Wild One" has. Overall it is worth buying, and if you're a fan of Joan Osborne, you'll listen to it with pleasure, but it could have been so much more.
Typical Joan Osborne December 13, 2008
Good music and easy to get into. And out of. For me, Cathedrals is the best song of the lot. This disc isn't as "edgy" as I'd have liked. She is a great singer but doesn't seem to want to cut loose much and that's a shame. Great music for the car or with friends because you can drop your attention into and out of it as needed. Righteous and Relish are more to my taste than this one. If you're looking for more rock, try the Beth Hart Live disc.
Burn Down the Winter December 6, 2008
Joan Osborne's 2006 set Pretty Little Stranger and her 2007 R&B escapade Breakfast in Bed were excellent outings, offering delightful gems. When "Little Wild One" arrived, I couldn't bring myself to eject the CD although I had four other new CDs waiting for a first listening. As a singer, Osborne's great accomplishment is in her total vocal commitment that makes you feel the emotions hinted in the lyrics. She ignites a powerful storm. My favorite track is the Rev. Gary Davis song from 1968 that Joan shapes to what could be the positive thinking record of the year from its joyful chorus, "Just as long as I'm in this world, I'll be a light of this world." The opener "Hallelujah in the City" is a stunning song that seems to me a statement of faith, "I have been unfaithful, I have been untrue, How'd I find the road that brought me back to you?" The second track written with Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman, "Sweeter Than the Rest," is a jubilant rocker that uses Mark Egan's delightful bass as Joan blooms on vocals, "You climbed in my window & you painted me gold; It was a strong recognition; It was truth being told; And we burned down the winter with the fire we possess." "Can't Say No" pulses with energy and desire, "How deep my love, so sweet tonight, I can't say no anymore." The title track, "Rodeo," "Daddy-O" and the incredible closer "Bury Me on the Battery" make this a set where Joan goes from strength to strength. This is another outstanding release by this extraordinary singer. Bravo!
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