Joan Osborne to return to the Suffolk Theater

Seven time Grammy nominee and blues/rock icon Joan Osborne set to return to the Historic Suffolk Theater in Riverhead, NY on April 10, 2015 as part of a blues/rock weekend with platinum selling blues/rock legends The
Fabulous Thunderbirds.

Known to New Yorkers for her blues-gutsy singing style that lit up the NYC club scene in the early nineties, Joan broke through to the mainstream with her hit “What if God Was One of Us” on her multi-platinum 1995 album “Relish”.

Osborne’s talents have also made her a sought-after collaborator and guest performer. She joined forces with the surviving members of the Grateful Dead when they regrouped to tour in 2003 as The Dead, sang with Motown’s legendary Funk Brothers in the acclaimed 2002 documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown, and produced two albums for the great blues trio the Holmes Brothers. She’s shared stages with a wide range of performers, including Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Emmylou Harris, Patti Smith, Melissa Etheridge, Taj Mahal, Luciano Pavarotti and the  Chieftains. More recently, Osborne has toured and recorded as a member of Trigger Hippy, which also includes
rising Americana star Jackie Greene and Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman.

Of her new release “Love and Hate,” Osborne says “This one feels a little different.” In addition to being the beloved singer-songwriter and seven-time Grammy nominee’s eighth studio album, the 12-song set is one of the most personally-charged, creatively ambitious efforts of her two-decades-plus recording career.

While Osborne has already earned a reputation as both a commanding, passionate performer and a frank, emotionally evocative songwriter, her soulful songcraft reaches a new level of musical and lyrical resonance on Love and Hate. Such insightful, emotionally complex new compositions as “Where We Start,” “Work On Me,” “Kitten’s Got Claws,” “Keep It Underground” and the pointed title track survey some of the more complicated terrain of romantic relationships, in a manner that’s rarely been attempted in popular music, while the album’s intimate, stripped-down sound marks a stylistic departure from the gritty blues-based rock for which Osborne is best known.

Joan Osborne is scheduled to perform on April 10, 2015 at 8 p.m. at the Historic Suffolk Theater. For tickets and information: www.suffolktheater.com.

Source: Suffolk Theater press release dated March 20, 2015.