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Lord in heaven! Goodness gracious! I just can’t believe it! On Wednesday morning, Columbia Records announced that one Barbra Joan Streisand will release her 37th studio album this summer—and it’s a follow-up to Partners, her Grammy-nominated duets album from 2014.
Produced by Walter Afanasieff and Peter Asher, with Streisand and Jay Landers as executive producers, The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two will be out everywhere on June 27. (It’s available for pre-order digitally, on CD, and on vinyl now.) Happily, however, we’ve been gifted its first single: a cover of Ewan MacColl’s 1957 folk ballad “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”—popularized by Roberta Flack in the early 1970s—performed now by Streisand and the Irish singer-songwriter Hozier, né Andrew Hozier-Byrne.
“Barbra Streisand is one of the most enduring and iconic vocalists of our time, and somebody who defined an era with the sheer force of her voice, her talent, charisma, and vision,” said Hozier-Byrne—who recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of his debut album, Hozier—in a release. “To be asked to join her on a duet was a huge honour and came as a wonderful and welcome surprise.”
Calling “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” “one of the most beautiful love songs ever written,” he added: “Along with the honor I have to sing on this record with Barbra, I hope this duet offers something of a gesture to Roberta Flack’s incredible legacy.”
The other anointed performers involved with the album? Bob Dylan (for a version of the Ray Noble standard “The Very Thought of You”), Paul McCartney, Ariana Grande and Mariah Carey together (you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Streisand and Grande have history), Laufey, Tim McGraw, James Taylor, Sting, Sam Smith, Josh Groban, and Seal.
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