Joan Osborne’s new album out in April

Joan Osborne will release her new album, Love and Hate, on April 8.

The 12-track “song cycle” weaves together strands of American roots music, poetic lyrics and impassioned vocals with the entire piece written or co-written by Osborne. Joan said of the album “These songs resonate especially deep for me. I feel like I’ve grown so much as a songwriter, using simpler and simpler language, getting to the heart of the matter in a purer way.  The image I keep coming back to is that of a beam of white light: we think it’s one thing, but when you shine it through a prism, you see that it’s made up of many different colours, different frequencies. Love isn’t just one thing either; it can be made up of faith and passion, power struggles, humour, anguish, deep spirituality, lust, anger, everything on that spectrum. People we love can bring out the very best and the absolute worst in us, and we can do that to them, too. Love is always a risk.”

Despite all that hippy tosh, Osborne once again worked with producer Jack Petruzzelli on the album after the success of 2012’s Bring it on Home which was nominated for a Grammy as Best Blues Album.