Joan Osborne
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"Joan Elizabeth Osborne" is an American singer-songwriter and interpreter of music, having recorded and performed in various popular American musical genres including pop, soul, R&B, blues and country. She is best known for her song "One of Us (Joan Osborne song)/One of Us". She has toured with Motown Records/Motown sidemen the Funk Brothers and was featured in the documentary film about them, Standing in the Shadows of Motown.

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At first, I thought it was cheesy.

With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be a great career move, but all these things - singing with the Funk Brothers and the Dead, singing a Dolly Parton song - is great. I'm welcome to all these different worlds, and that's been wonderful.

One guy stood outside telling us the hot dogs were no good and to give him all our lunch tickets. The hot dogs were excellent. He just wanted a few more.

It's funny. If I had plotted a course for my career, I would have done something more akin to what Alison Krauss does, ... She stays within the same field of bluegrass, and getting deeper and deeper into that well. And you create this expectation on the part of the audience.

But the experience was so great. That's what the music is about, the band and the audience elevating each other. I worried that it would be people sitting back and judging me. But it wasn't like that at all.

I'll Be Around.

It was like Grateful Dead bootcamp, jumping in like that.

If something's real successful, that's the obvious thing, to try it again.