Joan Osborne

Bring It On Home: A Conversation With Joan Osborne

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Joan Osborne, Bring It on Home Album, Bring It on Home Music, Bring It on Home Joan Osborne, Joan Osborne Music, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Joan, your new album, Bring It On Home, is all blues and soul classics. How did you whittle the potential contenders down to 12 songs?

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Enough With Politics.. I Want to Sing With the Funk Brothers!

Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Funk Brothers, Music, R&b, Motown, Joan Osborne, Funk Brothers Film, Funk Brothers Documentary, Funk Brothers Motown, Funk Brothers Music, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, 2012 Budget, Arts News
Lorraine Devon Wilke

I want to talk about something that actually inspires me: The Funk Brothers. Don't know who they are? Yeah... too many people don't. Let's see what we can do to remedy that.

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Give Till It's Gone: A Conversation with Ben Harper

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.15.2011

Read More: Blind Boys of Alabama, The Beatles, Grace Woodroofe, Pearl Jam, Chaka Khan, Joan Osborne, Ringo Starr, Jerry Wexler, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, The Soul Stirrers, Ben Harper, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, The Funk Brothers, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Today, Ben Harpers tells me the story behind his new single: "Rock 'N' Roll Is Free".

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MIA: Women Chefs in New York Post

Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Post, Anne Kim, Entertainment, Lee Ann Wong, Laurie Anderson, Women in Theater, Norma Jean Darden, Mary Cleaver, Media, Business, New York, Women's Campaign Forum, Politics, Meeting Planners, Shanna Pacifico, Style, Women's Project, Suzanne Vega, Nikki Cascone, Food, Living, Event Planners, Alexandra Guarnaschelli, Sue Torres, Nan Robertson, Zarela-Martinez, Naomi Pomeroy, Food & Wine Magazine, Liz Neumark, Joy Pierson, Leah Abraham, Paula Sorrentino, Women in Food, Payal Sharma, Women Restaurateurs, Restaurant Business, Meeting and Convention Planners, Association Executives, Top Women Chefs, Sponsors, Iron Chef America, Women Chefs, Joan Osborne, Top Chef, New York News
Beverly Wettenstein

It's disconcerting to continually read articles omitting women. Barriers to advancement persist in the professional kitchen and media coverage.

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Seen and Heard in New York: Liv Ullmann, Joan Osborne, Charlotte Rampling, Alec Baldwin and Robert Frank

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paley Center for Media, New York Philharmonic, Cate Blanchett, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jack Kerouac, Joan Osborne, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Charlotte Rampling, Live From Lincoln Center, Alec Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank, Barney Rosset, Liv Ullmann, New York News
Jane Levere

Although Liv Ullmann's acclaimed production of A Streetcar Named Desire with Cate Blanchett ended its run yesterday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, it might live on in film.

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Dog Ears Music: Holiday Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amos Milburn, D.J. Santa & the Dance Squad, Dave Matthews, Run-Dmc, The Beach Boys, Joe Sample, Neil Sedaka, Snow Patrol, Dolly Parton, Otis Redding, Casey Shea, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Horace Andy, Pedro the Lion, The Who, Dave Brubeck, The Klezmonauts, The Shootist, Jack Benny, Dinah Washington, Amalia De Granada, Laura Nyro, Matisyahu, Kurtis Blow, Chris Brown, St. Petersburg & Valery Gergiev, Ron Sexsmith, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, Itzhak Perlman, Kodo & Tan Dun, Keith Richards, Elvis Presley, Maria McKee, Mandy Patinkin, Macy Gray, mp3s, Leonard Cohen, The Trammps, Joan Osborne, Christmas Symphonic Players, Jack Johnson, Phil Ramone, Justin Timberlake, Frank Sinatra, Remy Zero, Eddy Arnold, Danny Elfman, Mickey Katz, Orchestra of the Kirov Opera, The Ramones, Steve Earle, Neil Young, Music, Iain Archer, Aretha Franklin, Spike Jones, Jane Siberry, The Long Winters, Tony Bennett, The New 2 Live Crew, 2 Live Jews, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob Marley, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong & the Commanders, Mary J. Blige, Barbra Streisand, Tim Finn, Danielle Evin, José Feliciano, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Richard Swift, Harry James, The Raveonettes, Yoshida Brothers, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Alison Krauss & Natalie MacMaster, Astrud Gilberto, Adam Sandler, Snoop Dogg, Woody Herman, Dog Ears, Marvin Gaye, Holiday Season Commentary, Music and Religion, Entertainment News
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

A comprehensive set of holiday music recommendations from Dog Ears Music, including Otis Redding, Spike Jones, The Klezmonauts, Keith Richards, Run-DMC, Dolly Parton, The Beach Boys, and many more.

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Susan Boyle's Success is Not In Spite of Her Looks

Jacob Dickerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fads, Susan Boyle, Susan Boyle Youtube, Britain's Got Talent, Aretha Franklin, Youth, Joan Osborne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sex-Appeal, Susan Boyle's Looks, American Idol, What if God Was One of US, Entertainment News
Jacob Dickerman

Susan Boyle does not succeed in spite of her looks, as the Hollywood story we all want to make her out of would suggest, but because of them.

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Home: Finding Out Just Where That Is

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Tragedy, Little Wild One, Frederick Buechner, Salve, Music and Spirituality, Dixie Chicks, Joan Osborne, Music and Faith, Grateful Dead, Music, Spirituality, Oak Park, Wxrt, Video, Healthy Living News
Cathleen Falsani

In hindsight, I'm certain I was in shock. Shaken. Utterly broken. I turned on the radio dial to Chicago's WXRT as I drove and heard a familiar voice singing.

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