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Joan Osborne - Early Recordings (1991)

Track listing:
  1. Flyaway 3:52
  2. Dreamin' About The Day 3:58
  3. His Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles 3:56
  4. Fingerprints 4:38
  5. 4 Camels 3:49
  6. What You Gonna Do 4:57
  7. Match Burn Twice 3:53
  8. Billie Listens 4:39
  9. Wild World 4:52
  10. Son of A Preacher Man 6:01
  11. Get Up Jack 4:21

Notes

Combining her 1991 album Live at Delta 88 with the 1993 EP Blue Million Miles, Early Recordings isn't as revelatory as Joan Osborne fans would like. Instead of capturing an raw talent searching for her own style, it showcases a workmanlike blues-rocker, capable of turning out competent originals and unremarkable covers of both Dusty Springfield ("Son of a Preacher Man") and Captain Beefheart ("His Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles"). None of this is bad, but it is mediocre, which is almost a worse offense.