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It\u2019s been more than 60 years since a guitar-toting Bob Dylan arrived in Greenwich Village and changed the course of popular music. Joan Osborne is adding her \u201cDylanology\u201d to the revival of interest in the 84-year-old cultural icon and Nobel Prize winner.<\/p>\n
Osborne\u2019s upcoming free concert in Haddon Heights will focus on her reinterpretations of Dylan\u2019s canon. She released an album of his songs in 2017 and a live album, \u201cDylanology,\u201d this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think my IQ probably went up five or 10 points in the process of making (the Dylan albums) and in the process of singing those songs night after night on tour,\u201d Osborne said.<\/p>\n
Osborne made the songs her own \u2014 not just substituting her sweet, soulful voice, but also changing tempos and their overall character.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes you pick a song and maybe you look to other people\u2019s cover versions to see what other people have done with it,\u201d Osborne said. \u201cAnd you try to find a place within that universe that works for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The process brought her further appreciation for Dylan\u2019s songwriting and lessons for her own.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s a certain kind of artistic osmosis that happens when you are living with that material from this very brilliant artist day after day,\u201d Osborne said. \u201cHe\u2019s a serious artist, but there\u2019s an incredible playfulness in what he does, and especially in what he\u2019s doing in this third act of his career. That was a bit of a revelation to me. So I tried to use that kind of freedom and playfulness in my own writing process.\u201d<\/p>\n
In fact, Osborne\u2019s next album is a new take on her own 1995 breakout album, \u201cRelish,\u201d with top jazz musicians, including Montclair\u2019s Christian McBride.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just was on cloud nine the whole time,\u201d Osborne said. \u201cHearing these incredible musical minds connect with these songs that I\u2019ve lived with for 30 years and just totally explode them and turn them into something new.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like Dylan, Osborne came to downtown Manhattan and had her first successes as a musician there. Osborne grew up in Kentucky and wanted to make movies, so she entered the New York University film school in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n
While taking a semester off to earn money for college, she got up to sing at an open-mic night in the East Village. Encouraged by other musicians, she returned weekly, which led to a new passion and career.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was something about singing that really galvanized me,\u201d Osborne said. \u201cFilmmaking is a very lengthy process, from the initial idea to the finished product\u2026Singing is kind of the polar opposite of that. Of course, you prepare in whatever ways you prepare, and that can sometimes take years, but the actual singing itself comes out of your body, and it\u2019s very immediate. And if you\u2019re doing it in front of a live audience, you get an immediate response from that.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the success of \u201cRelish,\u201d she collaborated with musicians from Luciano Pavorotti to the blues-gospel trio The Holmes Brothers. For a time, she became part of the post-Jerry Garcia incarnation of the Grateful Dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been nice to be accepted into these different communities,\u201d Osborne said. \u201cI feel like music has a very important job to do right now in this country and in this world, because I think that the great danger that we\u2019re seeing unfold right now \u2014 that is so frightening to me \u2014 is that we\u2019re losing sight of each other, and we\u2019re so divided\u2026I think music is one of those things that allows people to connect with each other and recognize each other just as fellow human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her big-break single, \u201cOne of Us,\u201d contemplates the nature of God, and it was the beginning of Osborne\u2019s exploration of spirituality through music.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think music is magic and sacred,\u201d Osborne said. \u201cIt\u2019s no accident that every religious tradition in the world has some kind of music that goes along with their rituals. And it\u2019s got a power that is able to jump over the hurdles that we put up to truly being connected with ourselves and to the divine. This modern world that we live in, we have a lot of things that get in the way of being connected to that. Music is one of the methods of getting around that and going right to the heart of things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joan Osborne will perform at the McLaughlin-Norcross Memorial Dell in<\/i> Haddon Lake Park, Haddon Heights, on August 13 at 7:30 pm. Admission is free.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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