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''Time, Love & Tenderness'' is the seventh studio album by American recording artist Michael Bolton. The album was released on April 23, 1991 by Columbia Records; it was produced by Walter Afanasieff and Michael Bolton. The album topped the ''Billboard'' 200 chart and produced four Top 40 singles: a cover of Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman" reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" reached No. 4, "Time, Love and Tenderness" reached No. 7, and "Missing You Now" reached No. 12. All four singles reached the Top 40 in the UK as well, as did a fifth single released only in the UK, "Steel Bars".〔(Michael Bolton UK chart history ), The Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 27, 2013.〕 This is the only album from Bolton's "hit period" that is out of print, due to legal issues surrounding the song "Love Is a Wonderful Thing." The album has since been released on iTunes and other digital music services, with "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" available as an "album-only" download. After reaching the top spot, the album enjoyed a steady stay on the charts, eventually selling over 8 million copies in the US. Worldwide, the album has sold approximately 16 million copies and is his best-selling album to date. ==Reception== The massive commercial success of ''Time, Love & Tenderness'' is sharply contrasted with its critical reception, marked by mostly negative reviews. In one of the album's few positive reviews, AllMusic criticized the album as a clone of its predecessor, ''Soul Provider'', particularly deriding the cover of "When a Man Loves a Woman" as the album's "obligatory R&B carbon copy". However, they praised the songwriting of Diane Warren, as well as Bolton's singing and his songwriting on the track "Steel Bars".〔 The ''Chicago Tribune'' gave it one of its few mixed reviews, saying that Bolton's talent as a vocalist is generally outweighed by the mediocre material, but that "When a Man Loves a Woman", "We're Not Makin' Love Anymore", "Missing You Now", and "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" are all strong moments.〔 ''Los Angeles Times'' also gave a mixed review, calling the album "commercial" and "glitzy", but praising it as containing Bolton's strongest material to date.〔 However, ''Entertainment Weekly'' thoroughly panned the album, declaring that "Bolton's singing amounts to gimmicks ... that replicate soul mannerisms without a hint of that music's power for re-creating human feeling." They derided the album's R&B covers as lacking sensitivity and the original cuts as being formulaic.〔 ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' was also mostly negative, criticizing Bolton's vocals on the album for the same reasons as ''Entertainment Weekly'' did.〔 In his Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau gave the album a "dud" rating,〔 calling it "a bad record whose details rarely merit further thought." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Time, Love & Tenderness」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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