before showtime at Krakow, Poland’s Tauron Arena, and Michael Bublé is cool as a cucumber. A February chill in Europe, where he is touring across more than a dozen countries including the U.K., Germany, France, Spain and Italy, is nothing new to the singer raised outside Vancouver. Likewise, the dress- ing room serves as a familiar home away from home for the five-time Grammy winner, who picked up his latest gramophone statuette for traditional pop vocal album in February.
What Bublé does know, and always has, is that he was destined for success. And that’s not meant in any hubristic sense, but rather that “completely unrealistic” way in which artists chase a dream. There were dispiriting periods during which Bublé was “constantly down,” years of performing at shopping malls and on cruise ships and at Canadian dive bars and nightclubs including Vancouver’s now-shuttered Purple Onion Cabaret and the Reservoir Lounge in Toronto. In Boston, Bublé played Scullers Jazz club, a spot committed to bolster- ing up and coming talent.
To that end, “Higher,” if not the pinnacle of Bublé ’s unflagging career, is certainly one of its crowning achievements. Com- prising cover tracks and three Bublé -penned originals, including the title track and single “I’ll Never Not Love You,” the album was produced by industry vets Greg Wells and Bob Rock — whose worked with bands ranging from Metallica to Bon Jovi — along with Alan Chang, Jason “Spicy G” Gold- man and“ I always look forward to work- ing with Michael,” says Rock.
“Higher” also includes a reworking of the 2012 McCartney song “My Valentine,” which the former Beatle wrote and composed for his third wife, Nancy Shevell.
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This seems about the same level as a Boy Scout badge for the best spaghetti over a camp fire.
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