By Don Wilcock (nippertown.com)
Will Joan Osborne’s “One of Us” become a universal descriptor for the loneliness of a sequestered humanity where even God is lonely, “trying to make his way home/back up to Heaven all alone/nobody callin’ on the phone/’cept for the Pope maybe in Rome?”
If her spectacular performance Thursday night at The Egg is any indication, her career-defining song may well become as ubiquitous to humanity’s current predicament as Don McClean’s “American Pie” has been in describing the death of good pop music 40 years ago…