Osborne ’ s considerable vocal talents have made her a soughtafter performer both in the United States and around the world . She not only sang with Motown ’ s legendary Funk Brothers in the acclaimed 2002 film , Standing in the Shadows of Motown , but she has shared the stage with such varied performers as Stevie Wonder , Melissa Etheridge , Emmylou Harris , Taj Mahal , Luciano Pavarotti , and Bob Dylan . Last year , Osborne decided to perform an entire show ’ s worth of Bob Dylan material during a residency at New York ’ s Cafe Carlyle . It was then she realized that her lifelong fascination with the Nobel Prize-winning musician ’ s work could inspire an entire record . On September 1 , Songs of Bob Dylan — Osborne ’ s first album in three years — was released . The album offers new arrangements of such well-known compositions as “ Tangled Up in Blue ,” “ Highway 61 Revisited ,” “ Rainy Day Women # 12 and 35 ” and “ The Mighty Quinn ( Quinn the Eskimo ),” in addition to such lesser-known pieces as “ High Water ( For Charley Patton ),” “ Ring Them Bells ,” and “ Trying to Get To Heaven .” Spotlight Central recently had an opportunity to chat with Ms . Osborne who will return to New Jersey for a show on November 11 at Roy ’ s Hall in Blairstown .
As a child , how did you get involved in music ? I had a really good music teacher when I was 10 , 11 , 12 years old . I grew up in Kentucky , and we had this excellent music teacher named Carolyn Browning . She was our music teacher all through elementary school , but when we got to be a little bit older , she would challenge us . She had a group that would