Friday, December 8, 2023

Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne - Joan Osborne Sings Grateful Dead Songs, Volume 3 (2006)

I've previously posted two albums of Joan Osborne singing Grateful Dead songs with Phil Lesh and Friends in 2006. Here's a third album. There's one more to come.

As I said with the previous volumes, there's a lot of charm in hearing how Jerry Garcia and Bobby Weir of the Grateful Dead originally sung these songs. But hearing Osborne sing them is a different thing altogether. Not only does she have a remarkable voice, but it's interesting hear a woman sing these songs. Plus, you still got very Dead-like jamming thanks to Dead bassist Phil Lesh and the other musicians.

All the songs here have soundboard level quality, due to the fact that all the concerts by this band from 2006 were officially released at one point. I've put them in chronological order.

This time, all the songs are Grateful Dead originals, except for "I Know You Rider" and "Turn on Your Lovelight." But the Dead played those two zillions of times. And "Magnolia Mountain" was originally by Ryan Adams, and was written after the Dead had already broken up.

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

01 I Know You Rider (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
02 Turn on Your Lovelight (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
03 High Time (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
04 Magnolia Mountain (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
05 Althea (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
06 Candyman (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
07 China Doll (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)
08 Stella Blue (Phil Lesh & Friends with Joan Osborne)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16029883/JoanO_2006a_JoanOsbrneSngsGrtefulDdSngsVolum3_atse.zip.html

The cover is a photo of Osborne from the Bonnaroo Festival in 2006.

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