Michael Bolton is known for his soulful love songs, and I'll surely have a playlist later for that at some point, but this list is another side to Bolton: rock and soul. His early work was raw and quite different from the polished commercial stuff everyone knows him for. He had a few early albums that features a hard rock guitar feel on some tracks. His fourth album Everybody's Crazy (1985) features Bruce Kulick of KISS on electric guitar. "Hot Love" is a great rock track from the following album The Hunger (1987). His big commercial breakthrough Soul Provider (1989) still had one fun faster tempo song "You wouldn't know love." 1991's Time, Love, and Tenderness also had one fun song "Steel bars" cowritten with Bob Dylan. After that it's really just the slower paced stuff, except an occasional cover "Old Time Rock N Roll." When I say rock here in any context of Bolton, we're talking fun, soft, pop rock, and there's nothing wrong with this at all. If you have any soul left you'll enjoy it, and who else in the world is writing about Michael Bolton in his music blog? Have some respect.
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