There aren’t many three-time platinum selling albums that credit Captain Beefheart as a co-songwriter. But that’s not the only unusual aspect about Joan Osborne’s major label debut Relish.
The singer/songwriter’s 1995 multi- GRAMMY nominated disc also included Bob Dylan and Sonny Boy Williamson covers and, in “One of Us,” a left field, still controversial hit single she did not write (Relish producer/arranger and Hooters frontman Eric Bazilian did). That’s a lot of uniqueness for any artist, let alone one on her first studio recording. Relish put Joan Osborne on the pop music map, a place she has visited intermittently for the following thirty years. There have been plenty more titles since; she has delivered a clutch of covers albums (Dylan and soul classics), done…

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