If midweek sales hold up, 70-year-old Tom Jones is on course to becoming the oldest man to top the British album charts. Jones previously held the record as a mere stripling of 59, when his contemporary pop duets set Reloaded went to number one in 1999. But he was superseded by then 68-year-old Bob Dylan [...]
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The Guardian
Welsh singer set to knock Eminem off top spot with 40th studio album, Praise & Blame, but hints at collaboration with rapper
It’s not unusual to be loved by anyone, as Wales’ favourite crooner has been reminding us for a good 45 years. It is, on the other hand, slightly out of the ordinary [...]
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. That the new [...]
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 & Blame, [...]
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