Sublime.
I love Joan Osborne’s voice and her cover of Dylan’s Man In The Long Black Coat was a high-point in her excellent debut (Relish) way back in 1995.
This album offers fresh takes on some Dylan classics. As Osborne says in this Rolling Stone interview:
There were also a couple songs that we tried to do where we couldn’t really find unique arrangements. We did “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.” I still enjoy singing that song and we do it live sometimes, but I didn’t feel like we were able to come up with any way to record it that would justify putting it on the record and saying, “OK, here’s a new way into this song.” So that was really kind of the criteria. It was: Is there something left to say about this song that hasn’t already been said? And if the answer was yes, then we pursued it. And if the answer was no, and we really thought that a song had been well-served by other versions, then we left it alone.
Great listening for the weekend.
