Michael Bolton - Gems: The Duets Collection
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Michael Bolton-Gems: The Duets CollectionAmerica’s blue-eyed soul singer regularly tops the charts belting out power ballads and r&b covers. Bolton’s latest CD tweaks that formula, teaming him up with various duet partners. He joins violinist Anne Akiko Meyers on U2’s anthem “Pride (In the Name of Love)” and records a bittersweet version of Sting’s gorgeous “Fields of Gold” with singer Eva Cassidy, who died in 1996. Best of all, he and Seal deliver a stirring medley of the soul classics “When a Man Loves a Woman” and “It’s a Man’s, Man’s Man’s World.”

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