Joan Osborne - Bring It On Home
Artist: Joan Osborne
Album: Bring It On Home
Label: Saguaro Road Records
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Rating: 4/5
Joan Osborne is an artist that has enjoyed huge success for over twenty years and she is back this week with her seventh studio album Bring It On Home.
And for the new album she well and truly returns to her root with an album that is heavily inspired by blues and soul and she covers a string of tracks and puts her own twist on them.
Ray Charles' I Don't Need No Doctor is the opening track on the album and Osborne has not changed the already great arrangement she has just brought a new energy to the track.
The drums and the backing horn are a great addition to the track as it just gives the song that extra pop.
Title track Bring It On Home, originally performed by Sonny Boy Williamson, has a real sultry feel to it as Osborne shows off the power of her voice when it's at it's very deepest.
The slow and deep pace and sound to the track does give it a real sensuality that was not in the original and it does work really well.
Roll Like A Big Wheel is another great tune as it is one of the quicker paced tracks on the records where the large collection of instruments on the song the blues element is really able to shine through.
And Osborne's vocals are so perfect for this genre on this track as they have a gravely feel to them that makes the song so rich.
It's rather an upbeat start to the album so Broken Wings come a little unexpected as she brings the pace right down as she covers the John Mayall song.
Her strong vocal is supported so fantastically by a subtle electric guitar, that rings though the song so fantastically.
Joan Osborne has taken a collection of well known tracks and but her own spin on them for a whole new audience to enjoy.
Bring It On Home is blues/soul to it's very core from the way that Osborne sings to the fantastic instruments that feature throughout.
Many will be coming to Osborne's work for the first time with this record and it really is a great place to start as she has recorded these tracks with an obvious care.
Joan Osborne - Bring It On Home is out now
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