Surrounded By Time

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It contains the obvious gag that Lazarus couldn’t make a comeback without Jesus (Jones couldn’t without Johns).

From there, he launches into an existentially resigned take on the trippy “The Windmills of Your Mind”, which won the 1969 Oscar for Best Song when it featured in The Thomas Crown Affair. A bleaker success is Jones’s wise, rumbling, desert blues-backed version of Todd Snider’s super-sharp “Talking Reality Television Blues”. It offers abundant proof that despite the passing of years, Jones has lost none his power or swagger. Afterward, Jones followed Woodward's advice and sold their Los Angeles mansion, subsequently moving to a flat in London.Surrounded by Time is the 41st studio album by Welsh singer Tom Jones, released on 23 April 2021 through EMI Records internationally and S-Curve Records in the United States. Prior to her death, Woodward encouraged Jones to continue recording and performing music after her passing. The Guardian 's Alexis Petridis wrote a less favourable review of the album, but still enjoyed parts of it; he praised certain cover versions while stating "the other experiments are a mixed bag. The album received positive reviews from critics, with much praise being directed towards Jones' vocals at 80 years of age as well as the selection of songs for the album. A

They recorded the album into 2020 with Jones finishing the last of the album's vocals immediately prior to the beginning of a lockdown caused by the increased severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. it instead comes across as something of a send off - a release that embraces the gravitas and legacy of Tom’s life and attempts to tie up the loose ends. But it’s also powerfully about the miracle of the life we have when our desire and ability to sing can seem impossible. While on his tour supporting Long Lost Suitcase, Jones' wife Linda Rose Woodward was diagnosed with cancer, causing Jones to cancel his tour dates for the foreseeable future. He’s a modern Dylan, tracing the arc of popular culture through from when video killed the radio star, reality killed the video star and reality TV star Donald Trump killed reality with his “alternative facts”.He performed the song live on The Graham Norton Show two days later and was briefly interviewed by Norton after the performance. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received a weighted average score of 83, based on 9 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". I’ve never heard him sounds so vulnerable as when he tremulously promises: “I will wake with you in the morning/ And I’ll stand beside you as long as I can/ I will hold back the evening of your sun/ But I won’t crumble with you if you fall.

Jones has sold over 100million records with thirty-six Top 40 hits in the United Kingdom, twenty-two in Canada, and nineteen in the United States, including " It's Not Unusual", " What's New Pussycat", " Delilah", " Green, Green Grass of Home", " She's a Lady", " Kiss", and " Sex Bomb". A long-time fan of Bob Dylan and Tony Joe White, Jones turns in moving versions of Dylan’s “One More Cup of Coffee for the Road” and Tony Joe White’s “Ole Mother Earth”. Writing for musicOMH, Ben Hogwood praised Jones' vocals, saying that he is "expressing more emotion than he probably has at any point in his career," as well as Ethan Johns' production and the instrumental performances by the session musicians. It was supported by the singles "Talking Reality Television Blues", "No Hole in My Head", " One More Cup of Coffee", and "Pop Star". On the same day, Jones' cover version of "Talking Reality Television Blues", originally written by Todd Snider, was released as the album's lead single, with a music video for the song being released in conjunction.Jones and Johns later recorded their third album together, Long Lost Suitcase, and released it in 2015. They recorded a follow-up album of more gospel covers, Spirit in the Room, which was released in 2012. Tom Jones, real name Thomas Jones Woodward OBE (born 7 June 1940), is a Welsh singer whose career has spanned five-and-a-half decades since his emergence as a vocalist in the mid-1960s, with a string of top hits, regular touring, appearances in Las Vegas (1967–2011), and career comebacks. But he growls such a conversational, experienced, Welsh truth into it that I suspect people who don’t know Snider might think he’d just freestyled those cleverly turned lyrics live at the mic. The recording sessions saw changes in the way some songs were originally planned to turn out; "I'm Growing Old" eventually turned out to be only Jones accompanied by a piano player and "Ol' Mother Earth" was done in a spoken word manner as opposed to being sung.

He gathered his son, Mark Woodward, along with Johns and a group of session musicians to begin recording a new album in 2019. Jones received a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1966, an MTV Video Music Award in 1989, and two Brit Awards: Best British Male in 2000 and the Outstanding Contribution to Music award in 2003. The re-release includes an additional disc comprising a cover version of Bob Dylan's " Not Dark Yet", a new composition titled "One Hell of a Life", four live performances of Surrounded by Time tracks at Shepherd's Bush Empire, and an interview with Jones and Peter Paphides. Jones was awarded an OBE in 1999 and in 2006 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to music. It debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, making Jones the oldest male to earn a number-one UK album, and charted within the top 25 in five other countries.A non-import version of the CD release for United States markets was released on 7 May through S-Curve. Tom Jones began working with record producer Ethan Johns, who had worked with acts such as Kings of Leon, Joe Cocker, and Crowded House, in 2009. In the United Kingdom, Surrounded by Time debuted at number one on the albums chart; [38] it was considered to be on track for a number-one debut during the midweek chart update. Surrounded by Time was released through EMI Records internationally and S-Curve Records in the United States.