Little
With a career now
In a world of manufactured, pre digested
LS: What about your career highlights?
pop music, people like Joan Osborne
spanning over 15
JO: There have been so many... Singing
stand proud. With a sound defi nitely her
with Stevie Wonder to induct Gladys
years, Joan Osborne
own and songs like “One Of Us”, “Right
Knight and the Pips into the Rock-n-Roll
Hand Man” and “St Teresa”, this is an
Hall of fame, duetting with Bob Dylan,
is an intelligent, deeply
artist who constantly pushes her own
travelling to India to sing for the Dalai
boundaries, seeking for something new
moving performer with
Llama. Recently I have been bringing my
and true. Her latest release “Little Wild
daughter with me on tour, and I took her
a sound all of her own.
One” is her second album this year (fi rst
backstage to meet BB King - I can’t tell you
one was “Breakfast In Bed”) and it is a fi ne
how thrilling that was! She loves him now,
Laurent Saletto recently
collection of great songs. I felt honoured
I sit her in my lap and we watch his videos
that Joan did agree to an interview and
chatted to her about
on youtube!
I started by asking her for in reason for
life, singing and her
releasing two albums so quickly.
LS: Yo ur latest album “Little Wild One”
new release.
JO:
has some great songs in it. Is it easy for you
Well, I am trying to avoid having
to choose the right material?
huge gaps between releases, working
on new material even as I record and
promote a current album. It keeps me
JO: “Little Wild One” is for me something
more grounded in music as a way of life
of a love letter to NYC. It’s my adopted
and makes me less concerned about record
home and in the aftermath of Sept. 11th
company schedules. It’s more a companion
I had a renewed sense of appreciation for
piece to “Relish”, as it was co-written and
the city... I did a lot of walking through
produced by the same team. Inevitably
neighbourhoods that I had not visited in a
there will be similarities because of that
while, just soaking in the life of the street.
As for choosing…well! Despite the fact
LS:
that my collaborators and I are all VERY
How early did you know your destiny
opinionated, it does end up being pretty
would be music?
obvious which songs are the best. We butt
JO: I have always loved singing, but
heads sometimes but not as often as you
didn’t dream I could do it for a living
might think.
until relatively late. I was studying
documentary fi lmmaking in New York
LS: Do you have a favourite song in the
City when a friend invited me out to a
new album?
blues club for a drink. The band had
fi nished, but my friend dared me to go
JO: It’s hard to pick one favourite of
up and sing with the piano player, and
course, but for me the songs take on a
after I did the pianist invited me to keep
different life as I perform them on tour
coming back. That was my introduction
with my road band. The ones that have
to the music scene in NYC. The singers
really blossomed in concert are Cathedrals,
that really shook me then were passionate
Hallelujah and Little Wild One, and also To
people like Otis Redding, Howlin’ Wolf,
the One I Love. Those are my personal
Ann Peebles, Mahalia Jackson, Al Green,
faves of the moment.
Tina Turner. Eventually I put my own band
together and started playing in the clubs.
When I was able to quit my other jobs and
pay my rent with music, I realized there
was no going back.
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