Reviews
Long Live Tom Jones – Long Live the King – Tom Jones is a King. He’s a force of nature like a flood or a hurricane. If you could splice the DNA of Sinatra together with Elvis, Tom Jones would be the result. TJ’s musical career spans a few decades and a lot of material. [...]
Dave Bidini, National Post · Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 He was like a lot of what was conjured in those times: seeing the neighbours drunk at a block party; stripmall Chinese food; plywood basement wet bars; Penthouse Letters found mud-splatched near the creek and the guy who wrote in to tell how he liked to [...]
Having been to the intoxicating heights of panty-throwing Vegas indulgences with old running mates Sinatra and Elvis, we assume Tom Jones is well aware that the Devil does indeed have the best tunes. Yet the man justifiably known as ‘The Voice’ also possesses a set of lungs that could rival God’s for earth-shattering reverberations; we’ve [...]
An album of deeply felt spiritual music from the face that launched a thousand panties? The man who once titled an album “The Lead and How to Swing It?” That Tom Jones? Well, yeah. And it’s actually kind of flawless, setting the tone with a haunted rendition of Bob Dylan’s poignant “What Good Am I?,” [...]
I’ve been with The Morning Express team for a few years now, and I can’t think of any stories we’ve ever done involving singer Tom Jones. So it was unusual to be showing his latest music video on the show yesterday. In fact when I said I was a Tom Jones fan, one of our [...]
Things I didn’t expect about the new Tom Jones record: 1. There was going to be a new Tom Jones record. 2. It would be released on Lost Highway, label of Hayes Carll and Black Joe Lewis and Ryan Bingham and Ryan Adams and Lucinda Williams and on down that particular line of music. 3. [...]
By Jason Albert July 27, 2010 From a distance, Tom Jones’ new Praise & Blame seems like just another Johnny Cash-style comeback by an aging star. And in a sense, it is. But Jones is a pop artist, and as such, he has every right to latch onto whatever trend he likes. With Praise & [...]
Tom Jones turned 70 in June and one listen to “Praise & Blame” leaves no doubt that he’s finally decided it’s time to stop kidding around. Musically, he’s checked out of Vegas and set up shop in Memphis, or maybe Muscle Shoals, for a revivifying excursion through American gospel and blues. Comparisons will be drawn [...]
I must confess at the outset that Tom Jones has always been a figure of fun in my life. This dates back to the Sixties when my mother and I watched the then unknown Tom gyrate his way through It’s Not Unusual on Top of the Pops. My mother starting laughing first and then I [...]
“What Good Am I,” the opening song on Tom Jones’ new album Praise and Blame, is a cover of Bob Dylan’s “What Good Am I?” The song showcases a strong and subtle vocal instrument, making it pretty clear that the 70-year-old Jones is still good for crooning with a pleasingly rough edge. In this country, [...]
