The 'Great American Songbook' remains a source of inspiration for many artists who have ruminated everything within their own genre several times. Rod Stewart, for example, tried to give his somewhat slumped career a new impulse with the CDs I Had To Be You and As Time Goes By, on which he sang classics like Every Time We Say Goodbye and The Way You Look Tonight. Probably inspired by Stewart, Michael
… Bolton recorded the CD Vintage, although he says he had already been planning such an album for eight years. Bolton also sings well-known songs in jazzy atmospheres such as A Kiss To Build A Dream On, All The Way and The Very Thought Of You. Even Summertime cannot escape an interpretation of Bolton, but his performance adds little to the now hundreds of versions that exist of this ultimate evergreen. And that actually applies to the entire CD. (IV)more
