Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter Joan Osborne joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about “monolithic cultural moments,” the Beatles as makeout music, their mutual admiration for previous show guest Sophie B. Hawkins and much more on “Everything Fab Four,” a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon.
Osborne, who took the mid-1990s music scene by storm with the megahit “One of Us” from her Top 10 album “Relish,” grew up in Kentucky where, as she told Womack, she “used to sing in the woods with the birds” as a child and was in the school choir. As a teen, she started listening to rock music and actually bought John Lennon’s solo collection album “Shaved Fish” before getting into the Beatles as a band – and the later admiration might be attributed to a “frightening” experience she had a few years prior.
