{"id":36862,"date":"2025-06-04T09:10:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=36862"},"modified":"2025-06-04T09:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T13:10:24","slug":"on-stage-extra-joan-osborne-comes-to-the-keswick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=36862","title":{"rendered":"On Stage (Extra): Joan Osborne comes to the Keswick"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>, Entertainment Editor, The Times<\/em><\/div>\n
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Joan Osborne<\/p><\/div>\n

Joan Osborne, who is performing tonight (June 4) at the Keswick Theater (291 N. Keswick Avenue, Glenside, 215-572-7650, www.keswicktheatre.com<\/a>), had one of the major hits in the 1990s with her song \u201cOne of Us.\u201d<\/div>\n

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The song\u2019s popularity continues to this day.<\/div>\n
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Who can resist a song with lyrics such as \u201cWhat if God was one of us, Just a slob like one of us.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cOne of Us\u201d is a tune from her debut studio album,\u00a0\u201cRelish\u201d\u00a0(1995) which was written by\u00a0Eric Bazilian\u00a0of\u00a0the Hooters\u00a0and produced by\u00a0Rick Chertoff.<\/div>\n
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The song became a hit in November of that year. It peaked at Number Four on the US\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100\u00a0and earned three\u00a0Grammy\u00a0nominations.<\/div>\n

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\u201cOne of Us\u201d was also a hit around the world, topping the charts of Australia, Canada,\u00a0Flanders, and Sweden, reaching number six on the\u00a0UK Singles Chart, and becoming a Top 20 hit in at least 12 other countries.<\/div>\n
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That single was just the start of a long and successful career for Osborne. She definitely was no \u201cOne Hit Wonder.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Throughout her three-decade, multi-Grammy nominated career,\u00a0Osborne\u00a0has never been an artist confined to one space.<\/div>\n
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She has shared the stage with artists ranging from Stevie Wonder and Mavis Staples to Bob Dylan and Lucinda Williams, and she continues to seamlessly blend into any genre.<\/div>\n
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In the last decade, Osborne released the original album\u00a0\u201cLove and Hate\u201d\u00a0in 2014 and followed in 2017 with\u00a0\u201cSongs of Bob Dylan.\u201d In 2023, Osborne released the studio album\u00a0\u201cNobody Owns You.\u201d<\/div>\n
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A few weeks ago, Osborne released her 14th\u00a0album — \u201cDylanology Live.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Now, she is on tour supporting \u201cDylanology Live,\u201d which dropped on April 25 via Womanly Hips Records.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIn 2017, we put out a studio album of Bob Dylan covers,\u201d said Osborne, during a phone interview from her home in Brooklyn.<\/div>\n
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\u201cDoing a covers album is an idea I borrowed from Ella Fitzgerald. She released this whole series of what are now called the \u201cSongbook\u201d albums.<\/div>\n
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\u201cShe would choose a different writer and do an album of their music. So, this is an idea that has been around.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe initial inspiration for the album of Dylan covers came from when I got a residency at the\u00a0Caf\u00e9 Carlyle\u00a0in New York.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI thought that this would be a good place to explore this idea. When we thought about doing an entire residency devoted to one person\u2019s music, we decided on Bob Dylan.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The shows at the\u00a0Caf\u00e9 Carlyle went well, and the album met with a positive reception from fans and critics.<\/div>\n
The album\u2019s list of songs includes \u201cThe Mighty Quinn,\u201d \u201cHighway 61 Revisited,\u201d \u201cTangled Up in Blue,\u201d \u201cRainy Day Women #12 & 35,\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cBuckets of Rain,\u201d \u201cSpanish Harlem Incident,\u201d \u201cMasters Of War,\u201d \u201cHigh Water (For Charley Patton)\u201d and several others.<\/div>\n
Osborne followed with an album support tour in 2018 with a show that featured special guests Amy Helm, Jackie Greene and Robert Randolph. It included the album\u2019s songs and a few that were not on the disc.<\/div>\n
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Instead of a big tour, we just wanted to make it a party,\u201d said Osborne, who had an art exhibit — \u201cSinging On Paper\u201d — last year at City Winery New York City.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt was a short tour, and we recorded some of the nights.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The show that stood out took place at the Tarrytown Music Hall.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThat show sounded so good,\u201d said Osborne, who sang with the Grateful Dead for two-and-one-half months in 2003.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI was looking through my archives and it just sort of popped up. It captured such a cool night \u2013 such a good vibe with the band and the audience. Everyone was having a great time.\u201d<\/div>\n
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It was purely a coincidence that Osborne\u2019s album of Dylan music arrived around the same time the major production Dylan biopic was released.<\/div>\n
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\u201cNow that the film has come out, I\u2019ve been seeing a younger audience at the shows,\u201d said Osborne. \u00a0\u201cThey are right there with the returning older fans.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe movie really conveyed what a charismatic figure Dylan was and how his songs galvanized people. The movie was also good for putting so many songs in.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Last October, Osborne\u00a0performed at Ardmore Music Hall in support of her most recent studio album, \u201cNobody Owns You\u201d\u00a0(Womanly Hips Records).<\/div>\n
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Osborne\u2019s prior album, \u201cTrouble and Strife,\u201d\u00a0took blunt and honest outlook on the U.S. political Climate, while \u201cNobody Owns You\u201d\u00a0had a more personal and introspective point of view.<\/div>\n
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But, the latest release is all about Bob Dylan.<\/div>\n
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The Dylanology dates will feature special guests Nicki Bluhm, Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie), Cindy Cashdollar (Bob Dylan, Van Morrison) and Anders\u00a0Osborne.<\/div>\n
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\u201cLee Falco is our drummer,\u201d said Osborne. \u201cWe have Anders Osborne on vocals and guitar and Will Bryant on keyboards and vocals. We\u2019re all seasoned players.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Video link for Joan Osborne \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/1cqlZGgajIE<\/a><\/div>\n
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The show at the Keswick Theater on June 4 will start at 8 p.m.<\/div>\n
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Tickets are $64.84.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times Joan Osborne, who is performing tonight (June 4) at the Keswick Theater (291 N. Keswick Avenue, Glenside, 215-572-7650, www.keswicktheatre.com), had one of the major hits in the 1990s with her song \u201cOne of Us.\u201d The song\u2019s popularity continues to this day. Who can resist a song with lyrics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5166],"tags":[3912,12978],"class_list":["post-36862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-d-arts-entertainment","tag-featured","tag-joan-osborne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36863,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36862\/revisions\/36863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}