Breakfast in Bed

Joan Osborne
Label: Time Life Records
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Audio CD
Release date:22nd May 2007

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Track Listing

1. I've Got to Use My Imagination Lyrics
2. Ain't No Sunshine Lyrics
3. Midnight Train to Georgia
4. Baby Is a Butterfly
5. Breakfast in Bed Lyrics
6. Cream Dream
7. Natural High Lyrics
8. Heart of Stone Lyrics
9. Sara Smile Lyrics
10. Eliminate the Night
11. Break Up to Make Up Lyrics
12. I Know What's Goin' On
13. Alone with You
14. Kiss and Say Goodbye Lyrics
15. Heat Wave [From Standing in the Shadows of Motown] Lyrics
16. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted [From Standing in the Shadows of Moto Lyrics

Album Description

Joan Osbourne's recently recorded album pays homage to the great Soul and R&B songs of the late '60s and early '70s. The album features a unique combination of unforgettable interpretations of timeless R&B classics. Her first single to radio will be "I've Got to Use My Imagination."

Amazon.com

On Breakfast in Bed, her first release on Time Life Records (yes, that Time Life) Joan Osborne tackles a crop of hand-picked soul and R&B favorites with equal parts sass and sensitivity. Long an underappreciated artist, Osborne is a performer with the wisdom to exercise vocal restraint for an effect that's more Dusty Springfield than Christina Aguilera. Her fine previous outing interpreting soul standards was aptly titled How Sweet It Is, and witness her contribution to the terrific 2002 film Standing in the Shadows of Motown, where Osborne's astute readings of "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" and "Heatwave" outshone performers like Ben Harper and Gerald Levert (happily, both songs are included here). The title track and Hall and Oates' "Sara Smile" are both canny choices that play to her strengths in delivering credible blue-eyed soul, and six new Osborne-penned songs fit neatly into the record. If her compositions pale a bit next to the classics she covers (with the sultry and slithery exception of the excellent "Eliminate the Night"), give Osborne credit for bravely placing herself side-by-side with songwriting luminaries like Holland-Dozier-Holland and Bill Withers. Breakfast in Bed makes for a leisurely listen on a sunny Sunday morning, so put up your feet and stay awhile. --Ben Heege

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