When Bob Dylan comes calling, it is normally a good suggestion to reply. Michael Bolton realized this firsthand when the legendary singer-songwriter contacted him within the early ’90s.
Dylan, recent off his 1990 Beneath the Crimson Sky album, apparently wished to proceed to collaborate with others. (Crimson Sky included a number of well-known cameos, together with Slash, David Crosby, Elton John and Jimmie Vaughan. He’d additionally been lately writing and recording with the Touring Wilburys.) Bolton was between tasks on the time; he’d launched his sixth album, Soul Supplier, in 1989, which included 5 Prime 40 hits. Soul Supplier additionally included some visitor performers, like Kenny G and Steve Lukather, plus songs cowritten with Diane Warren, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.
Dylan, nonetheless, could be the final collaboration for Bolton, who’d been a fan since his teenage years.
He was, understandably, nervous at first, telling the Hartford Courant on the time, “I believed, ‘How am I going to work with this man? What if I do not like one among his lyrics? What if I do not like an concept he comes up with? What am I going to say? No, Bob, that is not ok’? I did not know the way I used to be going to write down with him.”
What occurred when the pair lastly sat right down to work collectively? Watch the video under to get your entire odd-couple story.
Bob Dylan Albums Ranked
Not so surprisingly, Bob Dylan’s recording profession has plenty of ups and downs. That is sure to occur if you stick round for greater than 50 years and launch three dozen albums throughout that point.
