Joan Osborne - Acoustic Grateful Dead Songs - StageIt, New York City, 11-21-2013

My plan is to post the rest of Joan Osborne's stray tracks albums, then start posting some other interesting albums I have of her music. But I was listening to this the other day, and couldn't resist wanting to post it out of order. It's a short Internet broadcast she did in which she played all Grateful Dead covers acoustically, with just a guitarist and keyboardist backing her up.

Osborne really knows Grateful Dead songs because she had the honor of being a lead vocalist for successor bands in 2003 (with the Dead) and 2006 (with Phil Lesh and Friends). She has a fantastic voice, as always, and really nails these versions. So this is a treat for fans of her music, Grateful Dead music, or both.

The sound quality is very good and clean. There was no audience, so no audience noise.

The one bummer about this recording is it seems they were playing to a time limit, judging by her comments between songs, and they had to keep it relatively short. The album is only 36 minutes long.

01 Mr. Charlie (Joan Osborne)
02 talk (Joan Osborne)
03 New Speedway Boogie (Joan Osborne)
04 talk (Joan Osborne)
05 Scarlet Begonias (Joan Osborne)
06 talk (Joan Osborne)
07 Alabama Getaway (Joan Osborne)
08 talk (Joan Osborne)
09 It Must Have Been the Roses (Joan Osborne)
10 talk (Joan Osborne)
11 I Know You Rider (Joan Osborne)
12 talk (Joan Osborne)
13 Ripple (Joan Osborne)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15240116/JoanO_2013_AcoustcGrateflDeadSngsStgeItNYC__11-21-2013_atse.zip.html

The cover is a screenshot taken from a video of this exact performance. I added some generic psychedelic art in the background at the top and bottom.