| Crazy
Love |
 "Crazy
Love," Michael Bublé's first CD in two and a half
years featuring two original songs along with his always original
take on 11 standards from various eras is scheduled to
be released this Fall, October 9th, it was confirmed today
by 143/Reprise Records.
The multi-Grammy winning artist hunkered down in recording
studios in LA, Brooklyn, New York and his hometown of Vancouver
for the last six months to make his "ultimate record
about the inevitable roller coaster ride of relationships."
The first single, "Haven't Met You Yet," written
by Bublé (with Alan Chang and Amy Foster) is scheduled
to be released to radio on August 31st.
Additional tunes on the album include "Cry Me A River,"
"You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You," "Georgia
On My Mind" and "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)"
which was performed with Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings. The
title song is a cover of the Van Morrison gem "Crazy
Love." The CD closes out with a haunting version
of "Stardust" which is performed with the acapella
group Naturally 7. The album was produced by David Foster,
Bob Rock and Humberto Gatica.
"I started this record knowing I was going to record
it differently than my previous ones. I dug way deeper
and was more introspective on this one. Basically, I
sang the truth - made each song autobiographical - and you
can definitely hear the difference. I went back to the
way my idols made their records. I wanted an organic
feel - so people could feel like they were in the studio with
me. The musicians and I all sat in the room, recorded
it right from the floor and we let the sounds all come together
and bleed into one another. It's not contrived. Not
too perfect. It just feels really good," commented
Bublé on the recording process for "Crazy Love."
Singer and songwriter Michael Bublé has sold over 22
million CDs worldwide. His previous CD, the Grammy winning
"Call Me Irresponsible" (2007) was a number one
album in over 15 countries. His 2005 CD "It's Time"
holds the record as the longest running title to remain on
the Billboard Traditional Jazz charts - a full two years.
It sat in the Number One position for over 80 weeks.
He has had two Number One singles, "Everything"
and "Home" which was also a Number One hit for Blake
Shelton on the Country charts.
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| Michael
Buble Bio |
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"Nowwwwwwwww you say you're looooonely"
Sings a seemingly bruise, slightly battered and passionate-sounding
Michael Bublé at the start of his new collection of
songs on "Crazy Love." The song "Cry Me A River"
is a story full of sound and fury - of love gone wrong. Bublé’s
performance embodies the very essence of the soul of a man
whose heart has been torn apart. A bummer tent of rejection
and rage.
And that’s just the first song!
You might think you know that tune "Cry Me A River"
because it’s already been covered with sly and subtle contempt
by artists as diverse as Ella Fitzgerald to Joe Cocker. But
Bublé's version breathes fresh new fire into the torrid
torch song in a while different and often wrenching way. "My
songs have always been about love - mine and everyone else's.
But this time it was a little more extreme - and I dug deeper
- way deeper," says Bublé about the collection.
Right away you can feel the real.
For starters, Michael Bublé wanted the doors of the
studio left open during the recording sessions for "Crazy
Love." He wanted to hear the drums bleed into the horn
section. He wanted his fans to feel what it was like in the
studio - to feel like they were sitting with him - to have
them be part of his experience. So the engineers miked the
floor and put up sky stand microphones and it was all recorded
just like that with the thrill of the moment in mind - even
though the songs were written over the course of 80 years.
It wasn't all that different from the way it might have
been in a Louis Armstrong session in the '40s or even Elvis
Presley in the late 50s. The strings would get to carry an
extra micro-vibration along with the bows. Sometimes acapella
- other times with live bands and even huge orchestras - even
some sessions with primitive 8-track recording devices that
are a rarity in the crystalline perfection sound of 2009.
But it isn't just the time period that is crucial but the
breadth of emotional territory a man is willing to live through
and share by coming clean emotionally - in front of a bunch
of strangers no less.
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Aside from discovering a fresh way to deliver the live authentic
feeling musical goods he is known for, his choice of material
shows an artist still hungry to innovate and make his mark
both as a stylist, but also as a songwriter. He has already
proven his mettle composing the smash "Home" that
is the remembrance song for so many soldiers and their loved
ones in these times of war. The homesick homage scored as
a number one hit around the world. More evidence of the song's
power would come from cowboy crooner Blake Sheldon's No. 1
country version of "Home." And lest we forget Michael's
performance of his song "Everything" which launched
gazillion of newlywed's first dance as Mr. and Mrs. that voice
has evolved from breezy, funny, and passionate. Now it's sometimes
as strong as a hockey player with a stick. Old fans will quickly
notice that the callow youth of MB yore has given way to a
complex man who takes the stage in top form even in the recording
studio.
Like it of not, Michael Bublé is now at what playwright
David Mamet once referred to as "The Big Table."
The place comes with weight and license to express any emotion
artistically as long as it is authentic. Are you willing to
be taken at your word? Or lyrics? Now at the big table of
singers who can sell out Madison Square Garden, he has to
summon the heat and nerve to navigate the icebergs and cruise
ships at sail on the ocean of love. Yet, a smile is still
easy to come by on Michael's face. His essence remains solid
as a rock. Like Elvis he is a guy girls love and many guys
want to be like. He's been a heart breaker a few times. (OK,
maybe more than a few). And keeps his childhood friends and
family close to him always.
It's also impressive the wide bite Michael tears imaginatively
from the fantastically varied American Lovesong Feast. He
goes from Live at the Sands to Heartbreak Hotel in
a skipped heartbeat. In many of the tunes, too, you hear that
love of melody matched with a clever lyrical refrain.
The open door feeling is taken a step further on the two new
songs Michael wrote including "Hold On" and the
first single "Haven't Met You Yet," which carries
a Beatles vibe with even the fabs Love-love-loooove refrain.
Though the Beatles as a band had long broken up by the time
he was born in British Columbia in 1975, it is clear he has
absorbed the Quirky Queen's Quartet with Mersey Beat playful
melodies with an optimistic message.
It would have been easier to kick back, but instead he has
the cojones to take the title cut, already one of
the best loved songs from the canon of no one less weighty
in the music cosmos than Van Morrison. "When I sing 'Crazy
Love' it's not that I am going to sing better or sound better
than Van Morrison, it's that it's going to be different than
Van Morrison. It is going to be my interpretation of the song.
That can only come from my life experience and what I have
gone through. Or the love or the loss I've gone through."
You can listen and decide if he sells his version.
"One of the great challenges of a song stylist is to
take highly familiar songs like "Stardust" and "Georgia
On My Mind" already recorded by hundreds of artists and
ask myself, can I bring something special to this song? Otherwise
why waste everyone's time in the studio -- just go get drunk
and sing at a Karaoke bar -- and I've done that too!"
You hear many facets of a man from the optimistic happy go
lucky boy, the angry jilted ex - a perfect boyfriend, - a
maybe not-so-perfect suitor or the only man in a crowded room.
You hear him sing of accepting lasting friendship as a replacement
following a bitter-ended break-up as is recounted in the story
of the star-crossed couple who broke up but never break their
connection in the Bublé penned "Hold On."
Or the heartbreaking final scene in "At This Moment."
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Another
door opened on a tiny little studio hidden away in the noir
bowels of Brooklyn where Michael convened with a comparatively
stone age 8-track device and recorded a Motown vibed swinging
harmonious r & b tune that was a hit for Dinah Washington
and Brook Benton as a duet in 1960. On this go round, he sang
with the legendary Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. "It
was completely outside of what I've ever done - out of my comfort
zone but I had a blast," says Bublé.
Bublé reveals a rowdy world weary party animal in a reworking
of the great country rocker "Heartache Tonight" written
by rugged rock legends and a mega-hit for the Eagles. And then
returns to a sentimental yet again hopeful "All I do Is
Dream of You." Reaching both further out into the margins
of other songs to interpret his deeper truth is the pain and
happiness the resides within Bublé as he delivers the
wise and almost wistful goods of "You're Nobody Till Somebody
Loves You." while at the same time taking it cool
even beyond Dean Martin, one of Michael's idols.
After all, the trademark of Bublé's love songs is a voice
that evokes his passion for life and an edgy sense of humanity
and romance. The honesty of feeling sprawls out in the vocals
that cut through the night like a dark echo of an aching heart.
It surely becomes clear listening to "Crazy Love"
that you don't need to read the headlines of a gossip tabloid
or read obscene tweets to know Michael has had his heart walking
around the block of late. But just as often you can find him
basking in the sunshine of the day.
As Michael Bublé opens wide the doors to his own emotions
for the world to see on "Crazy Love," he knows he
has no other choice. "I can't bullshit my fans, he says.
They will know it’s real because they will feel it too -- and
after that we are no longer strangers." |
| "Haven't
Met You Yet" Promo Video |
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| Track
Listing |
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Cry Me A River
All Of Me
Georgia On My Mind
Crazy Love
Haven't Met You Yet*
All I Do Is Dream Of You
Hold On*
Heartache Tonight
You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
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