Odd {Couples}: When Michael Bolton and Bob Dylan Labored Collectively

When Bob Dylan comes calling, it is often 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 Underneath the Purple Sky album, apparently needed to proceed to collaborate with others. (Purple 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 initiatives on the time; he’d launched his sixth album, Soul Supplier, in 1989, which included 5 High 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, can 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 understand how 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 complete odd-couple story.