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they had had during those years at Motown and then some. It was so thrilling to stand on the stage with them and have that great massive sound of theirs just lift me up. It was an amazing experience. worked up for a residency at The Cafe Carlyle in Manhattan. And the two musicians who are going to be playing with me at some shows in Jersey are the guys who helped me develop the songs for the Carlyle show and who actually co-produced Your latest recording is Songs the record. One guy is the key- of Bob Dylan. What can audi- board player, Keith Cotton, ence members expect to experi- and the other guy is the guitar ence on this tour? player, Jack Petruzzelli, who A lot of the material is stuff I think a lot of Jersey people that we put out on this new know — he’s a bit of a local hero record. They’re songs that we down there. Watch Joan Osborne perform “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” NJ STAGE 2017 - Issue 40 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 17