Tom Jones Spirit In The Room Review

Spirit in the room is the natural heir to praise blame but focuses on more modern songs including covers of leonard cohen paul mccartney and tom waits.

Tom jones spirit in the room review.

Although the tom waits cover bad as me has a middle eastern undertow spirit in the room isn t quite the moment for another sea change any more than it s time for jones to deviate from being. Sir tom jones has been in showbiz for almost 50 years again it s produced by kings of leon laura marling producer ethan johns who also plays guitar on every track. Tom jones spirit in the room review. I have the us edition by rounder records and the order of the track listing is nothing like what is listed here.

Tchotchke november 14 2016 report. Check out spirit in the room by tom jones on amazon music. Recommendations reviews show all 2 reviews. Like its successful predecessor 2010 s god fearing praise blame spirit in the room.

Spirit in the room. Spirit in the room is the 40th studio album by welsh musician tom jones released 21 may 2012 it was produced by ethan johns. Although it isn t the revelation or surprising extraordinary achievement that his 2010 record praise blame was spirit in the room is another solid very welcome set of stripped back interpretations from tom jones produced once again by ethan johns making those comparisons to johnny cash s late period recordings with rick rubin all the more fitting. B efore tv viewers ask there is thankfully no version of u2 s beautiful day on tom jones s latest record.

It s irrelevant if he doesn t have the range that he used to have. The album is composed entirely of covers largely of folk songs performed in jones soul style. While it s not quite as good as that album it s still very good in it s own right. Stream ad free or purchase cd s and mp3s now on amazon co uk.

Spirit in the room is done in a style similar to tom jones previous release praise blame.