Reviews
There’s something slightly odd yet wonderfully right about ‘Praise and Blame’, the record where Tom Jones – he of Sex Bomb – finds God through gospel and blues. As from the surprisingly brilliant and sombre opening of Bob Dylan’s ‘What Good Am I? Jones – with the help of Ethan Johns (Kings of Leon and [...]
Seventy-year-old Jones has finally matured, delving into his musical heritage, and delivering a stunning album. With Ethan Johns as the Rick Rubin to his Johnny Cash, Jones presents stripped down cover songs that enriched him – from Dylan, John Lee Hooker, Staple Singers and more – anchored by a voice that sounds more impassioned and [...]
“What good am I, if I’m like all the rest?” emotes Tom Jones on his highly personalised version of Dylan’s What Good Am I. No problem there. Few singers with a popular background are going to emerge with an album as remarkable as this during 2010. Recorded live, with no overdubs, and no horn or [...]
MusicOMH Review – Posted by Michael Hubbard on 07 June 2010 at 11:27 PM
Sir Tom Jones turned 70 years of age today (7th June) but, as we witnessed in the atmospheric surroundings of One Mayfair last week, he’s far from gracefully retiring with a pipe and slippers. The Welsh warbler showcased his upcoming new album [...]
The Q Music.com Review – Tom Jones debuts new god-fearing material
The legendary Tom Jones has dabbled in more musical genres over his 35-year career than his native Wales has valleys, and to a small crowd at a Mayfair venue last night, he previewed his forthcoming album Praise And Blame; a body of work which draws [...]
Spinner UK – Review – 4th Jun 2010 by Julian Marszalek
There are few entertainers who are about to enter their seventies who manage to maintain any sense of dignity, but Sir Tom Jones proved on Thursday, June 3, his powerful voice remains intact. And he also showed a change in musical direction can never come [...]
Live Posted by ClashMusic Fri, 04/06/2010
Tom Jones Live
One Mayfair, London
The Welsh knight of the realm launched his new album last night in an ornate Central London church. The intimate surroundings proved the perfect match to the rustic charms of the songs from ‘Praise And Blame’, which sees Sir Tom embrace his musical heritage and once [...]
Drowned in Sound
- Praise and Blame Review 15.5.2010
We know as well as you do that Tom Jones is not among our standard fare of coverage but, we do try and be quite broad minded about these things. We were unsure ourselves until we actually heard the track in question. It’s a cover of a Bob [...]
Evening Standard 21.05.10
Sir Tom Jones is blessed with one of the most powerful voices in pop but, while his grunts and hollers send hen parties wild, I’m afraid they’ve always left me cold. Once, when I mocked him in a review, his manager sent me a furious letter commanding me to take Tom more [...]
Matrons and maidens alike melt to the magic of the master
Tom Jones did not disappoint. The boy from the valleys was in fine fettle as he launched himself into the final set of his world tour in the UAE’s brand new venue, the Abu Dhabi Hall.
An already excited audience, which included a surprisingly large number [...]
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