Saw Joan in the video "Standing in the shadows of Motown" She did "What becomes of the broken hearted " and blew the place away! What emotion, she's absolutely fabulous!

just a slob,
like one of us?

milehighYinzer wrote:
Well said. This is a great summary of how I feel about his voice too, and something that lots of Dead-dissers seem to miss. This song, or when he hits the "dust off those dusty strings just one more time" in Stella Blue: so much emotion in a delicate scratchy voice.

milehighYinzer wrote:

I havent heard much dead, or Jerry, but I would agree about the pretty voice but a lack of feeling being communicated. I get the same vibes from a lot of the "Divas" of the past 10-20 years. You can sing? You're not bad looking? Gee, wow. We havent seen that before...(cough cough cough)


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2/7/07--I prefer other stuff on this album that I've heard on RP. To each his/her own.

It's ok. It's pretty, but it's kinda dry. Doesn't move me like the original. 5.

blech...

It's not her best stuff, but it was decent enough for me to get this album and I find myself adding it to the play list (when im not listening to RP) quite frequently. Solid.

Odd that RP doesn't have a version of this by either the Grateful Dead or Jerry Garcia! ...or anyone else...

milehighYinzer wrote:
It was a treat to see Osborne singing with Phil Lesh & Friends last summer (tho this song wasn't performed). Lesh brings more refinement and expertise than ever to the improvisational interplay he helped pioneer with the Dead.

RP Needs to play more Culture Club. Yep. And maybe some Whitney Houston, for good measure...

milehighYinzer wrote:

I'm not a fan of hers but I'm picking up this cd, I've heard a few songs off it now and I really like.

savoyard wrote:Who cares what your coworkers think. My one coworker was playing a radio station with the Culture club playing on it once. Do you think I would care what that chump thought of what I listen to?

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo Horrible!!!! I just got the "what the hell are you listening to?" from all of my coworkers...

Argh. Just play the original.

milehighYinzer wrote:

While I like this version, I agree with you on this. Maybe this is the Geezer phenotype revealing itself, but to me Jerry seems to reach a little deeper on this.

What if god were one of us?

jbtidwell wrote:

dag on right.....

milehighYinzer wrote:

I agree, but would say that normally Joan Osborne DOES bring a lot of emotion to her singing. Maybe it just seems like she is singing someone else's song, not her own.

Sorry, Joan, but this doesn't pass the Mugro Doctrine of Covers test....

milehighYinzer wrote:

I just signed in to say exactly the opposite. This is sooooo much better than the Dead. I like the Dead, but this is better. EDIT: excuse folks. Just scrolled down to see I made the same comment earlier. Just shows how much I like this version, I suppose

Beautiful. Love this. Can't say enough about it.

i'd listen to her sing anything...

one of the few female artists i enjoy.

milehighYinzer wrote:

It's like the difference between hearing Streisand sing "Somewhere" and hearing Tom Waits sing "Somewhere".

I remember a skit they did on SNL featuring Ray Charles back in 1977. Charles was hired to play piano to back up a group called "The Young Caucasians" performing "What'd I Say". It was a smart lampooning of the "vanilla" versions of soul and R&B songs being covered by white artists like the Everly Brothers who expressed little emotional connection to the words they were singing.

To drive home the point, Ray sung his own version of the song, much to the delight of the audience.

For some strange reason, I would rather hear Jerry sing this. Mainly for the reason that Jerry had one of the most emotional voices I ever heard. He wasn't a great singer by any way, but that guy could bring tears to your eyes in this song by the emotion in his voice.

I don't get that with her. She has a beautiful voice, but the emotion isn't the same.

djeneba wrote:
Indeed so!

my favorite Dead song: sounds great

Nice singing, Joan!

What voice !

Straight 8. I've always liked this song a lot. But this is better than Dead !!

savoyard wrote:

Actually, she's had several big hits, though not for quite a few years. This woman has pipes!

What a great cover of one of my favorite Dead songs!! She gives me the chills...