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Tom Jones has released the new album “24 Hours” after a 15-year hiatus. There’s a cliché sound for oldster comeback records these days, courtesy of star producer Rick Rubin. When the producer began his high-profile mission to clear away the cobwebs from some of his favorite older stars — including Johnny Cash, Donovan and Neil [...]
THANKS to the commercial and especially creative success of Johnny Cash’s final recording sessions with Rick Rubin, veteran artists no longer need be confined to trotting out all the 30 or 40-year-old hits or releasing insipid covers of “standards” in the twilight of their careers. Instead, they have been given permission to experiment and explore [...]
Tom Jones is back in the spotlight with the release of his latest album, which includes a track to his wife Linda. HE may have enjoyed a long and successful career thanks to his incredible voice, but Tom Jones is not renowned for singing about issues close to his heart. Until now. On Monday, the [...]
Back when I first saw the little Welsh Napoleon of Love in person, 30 years ago at the Arena, the word was plural: hips. That show was as much about his skintight black slacks — including tasteless jokes about his backside — as it was about his sturdy pop hits. Even though he was backed [...]
PART Anthony Newley but even more Otis Redding, the Welsh singer Tom Jones was a musical shape-shifter long before “American Idol” turned versatility into karaoke posturing. With a voice as husky as it was pretty, Mr. Jones at the peak of his popularity in the late 1960s could slide from soulful rasp to pop croon [...]
Sometimes a concert isn’t just a show. It’s a time machine, transporting you back to when life was less complicated, adulthood and its concerns were a distant spot on the horizon, and you could feel so happy it seemed like the sensation would never end. For about 90 minutes Thursday night, Tom Jones took the [...]
Forty years ago, the women of Las Vegas were captured by a hot new name on the Strip. Well, almost new. In one of the more bizarre coincidences of Las Vegas show business history, the Desert Inn lounge already hosted a topless spoof of the “Tom Jones” movie with Albert Finney that still was popular [...]
The North Charleston Performing Arts Center was transformed into a Las Vegas ballroom Friday night as legendary vocalist Tom Jones worked his unique brand of musical magic on a crowd of about 1,400. It had been more than two years since the Welsh-born singer last stood on a Lowcountry stage, but if the squeals of [...]
Did you notice that cloud of steam rising from downtown Monday evening? That would have been the heat wave stirred up by Tom Jones, who proved once and for all at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center that “bringing sexy back” is for the youngsters: He never lost it, thanks very much. The pants might [...]
Booming baritone Tom Jones cuts loose at Plaza By Diana Washington Valdez / El Paso Times Tom Jones swaggered with the best of them Tuesday night at the Plaza Theatre, moving provocatively at times on the stage, and finally letting loose when he peeled off his jacket. “Help Yourself,” the second song he performed, was [...]
