Archive for July, 2010
With John Wilson, including an interview with Tom Jones who, at 70, speaks about not acting his age, growing up in Wales and the inspiration behind his new blues and gospel album Praise and Blame.
‘Who in the hell is Tom Jones?’ spat Charles Bukowski. It’s a good question. The Tom Jones he wrote about in Hollywood is a slick Vegas showman, “his shirt is open and the black hairs on his chest show. The hairs are sweating.” The Tom Jones I meet is a white-haired Welshman about to release [...]
Statement from Management: Praise & Blame: A Tom Misquote
Tom Jones’ ‘Praise and Blame’ eclipses his trademark sex appeal with fire and brimstone. Read this 4* Review..
The Guardian online are exclusively streaming all 11 tracks from Praise & Blame for one week. To listen to the album in its entirety please click here
To celebrate the release of Tom Jones’ Praise & Blame’, Play.com are giving away a meet and greet with the great Welsh singer himself. This is an unmissable opportunity to meet one of music’s living legends live and in the flesh, plus they are also throwing in some signed and framed album artwork, too! For [...]
Watch Tom Jones’ interview with Absolute Radio at Latitude Festival
By far Jones’s best album in two decades or more and it isn’t made up of hymns. Rating: * * * *
A revitalised Tom Jones – now 70 – talks to Andrew Perry .
