Reviews
Tom Jones Praise & Blame Lost Highway Records Grade: ★★★★ I had a pre-conceived notion when sitting down to review the new Tom Jones album, “Praise & Blame.” After all, this was the panty-thrown singer who thrust his hips in the 1970s to throngs of women. Well, what I found on that first listen was [...]
Tom Jones Union Chapel, London by Cary Gee Saturday, September 25th, 2010 When Island Records heard that new signing Tom Jones was going to release an “album of hymns” one record company bean counter described the project as “a cruel joke”. This sorry individual should prepare himself for a mountain of beans. Jones’ first release [...]
Reviewed by Simon Price Even more gothic-looking than usual, the octagonal interior of the Union Chapel is tonight choked by a fog of smoke, the arches behind the pulpit lit a sepulchral shade of blue, switching to a demonic red the very moment Tom Jones takes to the stage. “Beautiful venue,” he acknowledges after the [...]
He has some very big pipes. It is a very small chapel. There are many reasons to be excited about septuagenarian superstar Sir Tom Jones’s performance at an intimate north London church, but chief among them is the prospect of the Welsh soul man blowing this semi-sacred space wide open. It never quite happens. But [...]
By Dave Tomar and Akie Bermiss AKIE BERMISS: Without a doubt, the very last place I expected to hear good new music was from someone like Tom Jones. When Dave told me it was a record I had to hear I was at first under the impression that he was joking. I mean we’re talking [...]
Tom Jones has seen a lot in his long career, from early shows in Welsh working men’s clubs, to playing with Elvis in Las Vegas. A renowned showman, over the years he has played massive shows around the world, most recently appearing at Twickenham as part of the Help for Heroes concert. Yet, this evening’s [...]
Having stopped trying so hard to be down with the kids, Jones is making music as hot and heavy as the hippest indie band. Rating: * * * * Tom Jones is not normally someone you would expect to find singing in a church, what with his reputation for testosterone-fuelled, bare-torso lustiness and knicker-throwing fans. [...]
As a man reaches his twilight, he tends to embrace the things that really matter. At 70, Tom Jones is no exception. Having spent too much of his career chasing youth — the Las Vegas years; the ghastly Sex Bomb; the threat to “bum-rush the door” on 2002’s Younger Days — he has returned to [...]
Welsh crooner Tom Jones has confirmed details of his new single ‘Run On’ backed with ‘Didn’t It Rain’. Tom Jones is busy defying expectations. The singer’s image of a tanned lothario has been shattered on his raw, honest new album ‘Praise & Blame’ which returns the Welsh icon to his roots. Inspired by American gospel, [...]
By ROBERT TRUSSELL And so begins a new chapter in my love-hate relationship with the great Welsh singer Tom Jones. I got to talk to Jones on the telephone in advance of an appearance at the Midland back in 1988. The show itself was vintage Jones nonsense — he sang medleys of his pop hits [...]
