Getting Better at Choosing Covers...

Thank God this new studio covers album by Michael is not as disappointing as the one he first recorded back in 1991.
May be that the tunes are fresher, may be that Phil Ramone is the guy behind the production...point is this time the album is enjoyable.
LET'S STAY TOGETHER is even better than Tina Turner's cover (great sax job by Dave Koz...).
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD and MY GIRL pay homage to the '60's and '70's in due way.
WHAT YOU WOULDN'T DO FOR LOVE is a great prom tune.
SEXUAL HEALING is Michael covering Marvin Gaye wonderfully and there are other tracks that will surprise you...A WHITER SHADE OF PALE or AIN'T NO SUNSHINE..
And what about LIKE A ROLLING STONE? After collaborating with Bob Dylan on his TIME, LOVE AND TENDERNESS is cool to hear Michael singing such lyrics...
Better job THIS time!

Timeless Classic Michael,Volume 2

Here is another great collection of covers recorded by Michael Bolton. Many black artists have influenced Michael in his life. Here we begin with SEXUAL HEALING,one of the late Marvin Gaye's last hits. TIRED OF BEING ALONE was a hit for Al Green,as was LET'S STAY TOGETHER. The latter song was later covered by Tina Turner. There's more soul with MY GIRL,a big hit for the Temptations. (WHAT A) WONDERFUL WORLD sounds pretty cool. Michael did Bob Dylan's LIKE A ROLLING STONE slightly different than Dylan's recording. A WHITER SHADE OF PALE was previously recorded by Procol Harum and Annie Lennox. TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS is of course,an easy listening classic. That was recorded back in the forties and the late,legendary Frank Sinatra was one of the first artists to record it. Jazz artist Bobby Caldwell first recorded WHAT YOU WON'T DO FOR LOVE. AIN'T NO SUNSHINE was the second Bill Withers composition that Michael recorded(he recorded Withers' LEAN ON ME for THE ONE THING in 1993). I CAN'T STAND THE RAIN is for those who demand sunshine.

torture chamber music

Bringing in the shears to shorn his proto-mullet is about as radical as balladeering Bolts gets on his latest installment of waxen tonsil-rattling covers. The formula remains the same: veteran soul material by the likes of Marvin Gaye, Ann Peebles, Louis Armstrong and Al Green fleeced and denatured as awful overblown orchestrations of pube-crimping, anglo-pleasing sap. Fans are sure to be tickled pinkish by the self-indulgent caterwauling. But even they might be inclined to turn up their snouts, if not at the fitting inclusion of the facile old acid lullaby Whiter Shade of Pale, then certainly at Moltin's excruciating emasculation of Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone. It's time for Michael Snap-on to cease and desist of the classics and muster the cajones to insert his own material in the white soul torture machine he's built for himself.
Nothing less humiliating will suffice.