Relish (album)

Relish
Studio album by Joan Osborne
Released March 21, 1995
Recorded 1994-1995 at The Crawlspace (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); additional recording at Big Blue (Katonah, New York) and PIE Studios (Glen Cove, New York)
Genre Rock, pop rock
Length 61:06
Label Blue Gorilla Records/Mercury
Producer Rick Chertoff
Joan Osborne chronology
Soul Show: Live at Delta 88
(1991)
Relish
(1995)
Early Recordings
(1996)
Singles from Relish
  1. "One of Us"
    Released: February 21, 1995; December 28, 1995 (re-release)
  2. "St. Teresa"
    Released: 1996
  3. "Right Hand Man"
    Released: 1996
  4. "Ladder"
    Released: 1997
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Chicago Tribune[2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[5]
NME7/10[6]
Q[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[9]

Relish is the debut album by Joan Osborne, released on March 21, 1995. It is her first studio album. It was nominated for Album of the Year at the 38th Grammys.[10]

Background

Relish is a mixture of raw styles of contemporary folk, rock, and sometimes pop-rock sounds.

Its biggest hit single, "One of Us", was used as the theme to the 2003-2005 television series Joan of Arcadia, although the show used a re-recorded version rather than the original version. The album and the song were both nominated for multiple Grammy Awards in 1996. The song was written by Eric Bazilian of the Hooters.

"Man in the Long Black Coat" is a cover of the Bob Dylan song from his 1989 album Oh Mercy.

The final track, "Lumina", was used on the first episode of the HBO's hit show The Sopranos. It was also used in an episode in the 4th series of the CBS hit show "The Good Wife" in 2013.

Track listing

All songs written by Joan Osborne, Eric Bazilian, Rob Hyman and Rick Chertoff unless otherwise indicated.

  1. "St. Teresa" – 5:20
  2. "Man in the Long Black Coat" (Bob Dylan) – 4:49
  3. "Right Hand Man" (Osborne, Bazilian, Hyman, Chertoff, Don Van Vliet) – 4:57
  4. "Pensacola" – 4:32
  5. "Dracula Moon" – 6:32
  6. "One of Us" (Bazilian) – 5:21
  7. "Ladder" – 4:11
  8. "Spider Web" (Joan Osborne, Chertoff, Gary Lucas, Sammy Merendino, Chris Palmaro) – 5:34
  9. "Let's Just Get Naked" (Joan Osborne, Bazilian) – 5:08
  10. "Help Me" (Sonny Boy Williamson II, Ralph Bass) – 5:14
  11. "Crazy Baby" (Joan Osborne) – 6:31
  12. "Lumina" (Joan Osborne, Bazilian) – 3:08

Personnel

Additional personnel

Production

Charts

Album

Chart (1995–96) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[11] 12
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[12] 8
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[13] 5
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[14] 14
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[15] 8
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[16] 14
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[17] 15
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[18] 13
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[19] 17
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[20] 6
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[21] 18
UK Albums (OCC)[22] 5
US Billboard 200[23] 9

Single

Year Single Chart Position
1995 "One of Us" Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 7
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 26
Billboard Adult Top 40 16
Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 2
Billboard Hot 100 4
Billboard Adult Top 40 Recurrents 7
Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 14
Austrian Singles Chart 13

Certifications

Organization Level Date
RIAA – USA Gold November 20, 1995
Platinum January 16, 1996
Double Platinum March 22, 1996
Triple Platinum July 16, 1996

References

  1. Parisien, Roch. "Relish – Joan Osborne". AllMusic. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
  2. Dretzka, Gary (June 29, 1995). "Joan Osborne: Relish (Blue Gorilla/Mercury)". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
  3. Christgau, Robert. "Joan Osborne: Relish". RobertChristgau.com. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  4. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-857-12595-8.
  5. McDonnell, Evelyn (March 10, 1995). "Relish". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
  6. "Joan Osborne: Relish". NME: 41. March 9, 1996.
  7. "Joan Osborne: Relish". Q (112): 143. January 1996.
  8. Evans, Paul (May 4, 1995). "Joan Osborne: Relish". Rolling Stone: 69. Archived from the original on November 12, 2007. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
  9. Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 608–09. ISBN 0-743-20169-8.
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  23. "Joan Osborne – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Joan Osborne. Retrieved August 9, 2016.
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