Joan Osborne - Stand Back - Non-Album Tracks (2003-2005)

I have a ton of Joan Osborne music to post, so I'm going to try to prioritize that a bit more. Here's the next in a long series of her stray tracks albums.

At this point in her career, Osborne was wearing a few musical hats. She had her solo career going on, of course. But she also got involved singing with the Funk Brothers, the backing group to most of the Motown hits from the 1960s and early 1970s. She was featured in the documentary movie about them called "Standing in the Shadows of Motown." The first two songs here are unreleased performances she did with the Funk Brothers on a tour promoting that movie.

She also began getting involved with various successor bands to the Grateful Dead around this time. That's a whole separate thing, in my opinion, so I'll post her music related to that at another time.

The two songs with the Funk Brothers mentioned above are unreleased (but come from an excellent sounding soundboard bootleg). The last two songs here also are unreleased, and come from concert bootlegs. The first of those, "On the Old Kentucky Shore," was originally done by her as a duet with Ricky Scaggs for a various artists album celebrating the music of country musician Bill Monroe. I didn't like that version, because it featured a lot more of Scaggs than it did of Osborne. But I found this live version instead that has only Osborne singing all the lead vocals, so I used that one. The last song, "Turtle Blues," was most famously done by Janis Joplin.

Unfortunately, these last two songs don't sound as great as the rest. But I used some sound editing tricks to improve them as much as possible. Also, for "Turtle Blues," it seems a section of the song in the middle was missing. So I cut out all of that verse to make the missing section less obvious.

As for all the songs in between, they are all officially released. Generally, they come from Osborne's appearances on other people's albums, or on various artists compilations. But also, she did a Christmas album around this time. Personally, I don't like the whole thing, so I took the songs I did like and added them to this album, as well as the next stray tracks album in this series.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 For Once in My Life (Joan Osborne & the Funk Brothers)
02 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Joan Osborne & the Funk Brothers)
03 Lover Man (Greg Osby with Joan Osborne)
04 Stand Back (Joan Osborne)
05 Just to Be Alone with You (Joan Osborne)
06 Santa Claus Baby (Joan Osborne)
07 Christmas in New Orleans (Joan Osborne)
08 Spoonful (Joan Osborne & Vivian Campbell)
09 What Do Bad Girls Get (Joan Osborne)
10 On the Old Kentucky Shore (Joan Osborne)
11 Turtle Blues [Edit] (Joan Osborne)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16376012/JOANOSB2003-2005StandBck_atse.zip.html

The cover photo features Osborne at a public event in 2005.