Audio Cassette review:
Joan Osborne - Righteous Love

Joan Osborne - Righteous Love

Band: Joan Osborne Title: Righteous Love Rating: Release Date: 12 September, 2000 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 1: Running Out of Time 2: Righteous Love 3: Safety in Numbers 4: Love Is Alive 5: Angel Face 6: Grand Illusion 7: If I Was Your Man 8: Baby Love 9: Hurricane 10: Poison Apples (Hallelujah) 11: Make You Feel My Love

Editoral Review In fact, Osborne gets rather bawdy on "Baby Love," which details the pain and perils of involvement with a considerably younger man, and on the gender-bending "If I Was Your Man. Righteous Love, unlike its 1995 breakthrough predecessor, Relish, is more profane than sacred. " The invigorated Kentuckian does seem to be describing love of the celestial kind on the title cut. And, like the Beatles, Alanis Morrisette, and Madonna before her, Osborne makes a detour to Mother India; raga elements spice up "Running Out of Time," the aforementioned "If I Was Your Man," and the outstandingly alliterative "Grand Illusion. " The Osborne of Righteous Love is a graceful chameleon capable of conjuring the specters of Laura Nyro, Carole King, and Bonnie Raitt at their edgiest. She throws in a dash of gospel in "Angel Face," only to become a plaintive victim of love in Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love. " But throughout, she proves that she's a survivor, borne up on wings of her own construction, singing fierce tales of renewal, empowerment, and endurance. --Jaan Uhelszki .. You can see a complete list of all Joan Osborne discography, or go back to the Joan Osborne tabs