“Joanthology”, a new 43-song collection, tracks Joan Wasser’s work from her self-titled debut EP to her seventh album
HISTORY IS not always kind to the overblown, nor does it always reward the deserving. Peter Frampton, for instance, was heard everywhere in his heyday, and the Velvet Underground scarcely listened to in theirs—now it is the other way around.
It is not that Ms Wasser labours in obscurity. Recording and performing under the stage name of Joan As Police Woman, she has built a substantial career for herself and commands a devoted following. But she lives in the wrong era to be a hitmaker. She might have flourished in the early 1970s, alongside other artists who bridge the gap between the singer-songwriter mode and soul music, such as Carole King, Laura Nyro and Phoebe Snow.
“Joanthology”, a comprehensive new 43-song collection, tracks Ms Wasser’s work from her self-titled debut EP in 2004 to her seventh album, “Damned Devotion”, released last year. “Joan As Police Woman” was self-released, and it wasn’t until 2006—after signing with Reveal, a British label—that she found an audience that had thus far eluded her at home in America.
“Real Life” and its successor “To Survive” were beguiling records that dealt obliquely with Ms Wasser’s painful past and her coming to terms with it, as hinted by their titles. It was on her third album of original songs, “The Deep Field” , that she truly came of age as an artist. Where the first two were elegant, rich and soulful, the third was an expression of wild ambition. It combined the sound and the spirit of jazz and psychedelic soul with assured musicianship.
As “Joanthology” illustrates, Ms Wasser is also unafraid to be abrasive—even, at times, confrontational. Those punk years were not wasted. In covering Prince and Public Enemy, she is anything but gimmicky; rather, she rebuilds their songs from the ground up. She takes them on with evident respect but neither fear nor false modesty. Her body of work suggests she has earned the right to.
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