PRESS RELEASE:  SEPTEMBER 2008

JOAN OSBORNE

A Grammy all-star team reunite for new soul album

When stars collide planet earth rocks and Joan Osborne’s latest offering slams a tumultuous punch as she teams up with an all-star team for the launch of, ‘ Little Wild One,’ on 10 November.  The awesome union of producer/writers Rick Chertoff, Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian, last collaborated with Joan on her five million selling, six time grammy nominated breakthrough album, ‘ Relish ’.  Now the dream-team are back with a soul collection that’s sure to send the music world spinning off its axis.

Released on her own label, Womanly Hips, ‘ Little Wild One,’ is Joan’s second soul album of 2008 (the first, ‘ Breakfast In Bed’, was released in April) and features eleven original Osborne tracks, most penned in partnership with Chertoff, Bazilian and Hyman. Highlights include, ‘ Hallelujah in the City ’, ‘ Sweeter Than The Rest’, ‘Cathedrals’, the haunting title track, ‘ Little Wild One’ and the stripped-down, ‘ Bury Me On The Battery’ , an ode to Osborne’s coming of age hometown, New York City.

Most well known for her penning and recording of ‘ (What if God Were) One of Us’ , which still receives mammoth radio air play almost two decades after its release, Joan Osborne is one of those rare singer/songwriters who isn’t afraid to leap genre boundaries.  Stemming from the same school as Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan, Ms Osborn is equally comfortable steeped in country, blues and folk as she is when she’s submerged in pure Motown Soul and R&B. 

Born in Louiseville, Kentucky, Joan moved to New York in the late ‘80s where she formed her own record label, Womanly Hips, only to be quickly snapped up by Mercury Records who released her first major label album, ‘ Relish ’.  

The whirlwind which followed included a Top 5 hit, five Grammy nominations and multi-platinum album sales.  Joan later featured in the 2002 documentary film, ‘Standing in the Shadows of Motown’ as well as notching up some mighty live tours alongside the likes of the Funk Brothers, The Dixie Chicks and veteran jam-rockers, The Dead. For Joan Osborne, life is a musical pilgrimage of experimentation, which has taken her to the depths of discovery in India, to performances for the Dalai Lama and right down to the gritty roots of the deep south to uncover the roots of blues.  Thus making Ms Osborne one of the most versatile and knowledgeable females known to the industry.

Now Joan returns with a soulful slice of heaven as, ‘ Little Wild One’, delivers an original melodic collection of sheer excellence that’s been crafted by a constellation of the finest in the business.  ‘ Little Wild One’ could be THE soul album of 2008!

 The album ‘Little Wild One’ is released on Womanly Hips/ADA Global on 10 November.

For more information visit www.joanosborne.com

 For further details, or to request pictures or an interview, please contact Cat Hockley at Fifth Element on 0207 287 0008 or email cat@fifthelement.biz

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