Concert Review: Joan Osborne, featuring Special Guest Keith Cotton, August 27th, 2016 Layton, Utah Ed Kenley Ampitheatre

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Joan Osborne was accompanied by multi-talented Keith Cotton, Cotton played piano, keyboards, guitar and provided harmonies. The dude is crazy talented.

A laid back relaxing concert. This was part concert, part music history lesson. Miss Osborne shared some of her experiences with the remaining members of the Grateful Dead, Mavis Staples, Motown and the songs of Bob Dylan. Joan and Keith put on a great show and they have a lot of chemistry. Miss Osborne still has that amazingly strong, raspy voice. She also has a lively sense-of-humor. (I wondered are they couple or not? Not that it matters, just wondering.) My only complaint is I wish they would have performed "Right Hand Man":

1) "I Want To Be Loved" (Muddy Waters cover)
2) "Shake Your Hips" (Slim Harpo cover)
3) "St. Teresa" (from "Relish") Miss Osborne noted the twentieth anniversary of "Relish"- that was actually last year. That by far is her best CD, a CD every music lover should have.

4) "Angel From Montgomery" (Bonnie Raitt cover)
5) "Broke Down Palace" (Grateful Dead cover)
6) "Sugaree" (Grateful Dead cover):

7) "Work On Me" (From "Love and Hate"- with Joan accompanying herself on shaker egg)
8) "Bury Me On The Battery" (From "Little Wild One")

9) "Little Wild One"
10) "Buckets of Rain" (Bob Dylan cover)
11) "Tangled Up In Blue" (Bob Dylan cover) I loved their version of this song, sadly there's not a good YouTube video of their performance of "Tangled".
12) "Freedom" a song Joan wrote for Mavis Staples. Staples has yet to record it so live performance is the "only place it exists".

13) "Spiderwebs" (from "Relish):

14) "One of Us" (from "Relish", with a slowed down arrangement that loses some of the magic of the original.)

Encore:
15) "What Become of the Brokenhearted" (Jimmy Ruffin cover) this video features The Funk Brothers who was the band on all those great early Motown hits. The Funk Brothers are featured in the 2002 movie "Standing In The Shadows of Motown".

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