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Surrounded by Time is Tom Jones' 42nd album, his first since the passing of wife Linda in 2016. Since 1965, the Welsh vocalist, possessed of a singular booming baritone, has sung almost every form of popular music of all stripes. This is Jones' fourth album with producer Ethan Johns, and includes his manager/son Mark Woodward as co-producer.
Surrounded by Time differs from Jones' previous outings with Johns, which were rooted in Americana sources. The set opens with a sparsely orchestrated reinvention of Bernice Johnson Reagon's activist classic "I Won't Crumble with You If You Fall." Jones performs the lyric like a gospel preacher atop Neil Cowley's and Johns' layered Moogs, Nick Pini's arco bass, and Dan See's mallets. He follows with a glorious version of Michel Legrand's "The Windmills of Your Mind." His delivery is at once dramatic and resonant, balancing reverie, desire, and pathos, while draped in post-electro sequencers, organ, Moog, and brooding rhythms. Jones chose Cat Stevens' "Pop Star" because it reminded him of his first brush with fame. Johns paints the jagged arrangement with Chamberlins, Mellotrons, DFAM, sitar, and acoustic guitars, providing urgency alongside the singer's joy. Jones offers Malvina Reynolds' topical folk gem "No Hole in My Head" as organ-drenched psychedelic rock, complete with droning tambouras and electric guitars. His take of Michael Kiwanuka's "I Won't Lie" is colored by airy synths, acoustic guitars, bird calls, and satellite sounds. Jones' delivery is uncharacteristically tender, intimate, even vulnerable. The singer renders Mike Scott's "This Is the Sea" with the passionate authority of a blues singer. Acoustic guitars and organ simmer and soar alongside his roaring vocal as the rhythm section (barely) tethers them to earth. The singer reads Bob Dylan's foreboding "One More Cup of Coffee" through the mistakes of his youth. Amid the slurry instrumental swirl, a plodding upright bass exhorts Jones to face his darkness. He surrenders, offering the line "One more cup of coffee before I go/To the valley below" with chilling intensity. Organs, synth pads, Moogs, and guitars paint a spaghetti western backdrop as Jones goes deep on Tony Joe White's "Ol' Mother Earth." He delivers it as a solemn elegy for the planet. Composer Bobby Cole presented Jones with "I'm Growing Old" when the singer was 35; feeling he was too young to sing it then, he promised to cut it when he turned 80. Ambient sonics and disembodied voices float by, then vanish as Jones begins a desolate croon, accompanied only by Cowley's haunted piano. Jones chose Terry Callier's "Lazarus Man" as a set closer. After a spacey electronic intro, silvery guitars, droning bass, Rhodes piano, and thundering drums offer a sonic maelstrom in blues, spiritual soul, and rock. Jones embraces it all, passionately affirming the lyric as a manifesto for whatever time remains to him. Surrounded by Time is magnificent -- it's redolent with wisdom and a raging lust for life that is free of camp. It offers abundant proof that despite the passing of years, Jones has lost none his power or swagger.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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Tom Jones, MainArtist - Ethan Johns, Producer, Moog - Neil Cowley, Moog - Dom Monks, Engineer - Bernice Johnson Reagon, Composer - Nick Pini, Bass
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Tom Jones, MainArtist - Michel Legrand, Composer - Marilyn Bergman, Composer - Alan Bergman, Composer - Ethan Johns, Producer, Organ, Percussion, Strings, Moog, Mellotron, Bass Moog - Jeremy Stacey, Drums - Neil Cowley, Piano, Moog - Dom Monks, Engineer - Nick Pini, Bass
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Tom Jones, MainArtist - Cat Stevens, Composer - Ethan Johns, Producer, Chamberlain Strings, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion, Moog, Sitar, Mellotron, Bass Moog - Neil Cowley, Piano - Dom Monks, Engineer - Nick Pini, Bass - Dan See, Percussion
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Tom Jones, MainArtist - Ethan Johns, Producer, Engineer, Electric Guitar, Tambourine, Moog, Sitar, Tabla Drums - Neil Cowley, Organ - Malvina Reynolds, Composer - Dom Monks, Engineer - Nick Pini, Bass - Dan See, Drums - Matt Colon, Engineer
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Tom Jones, MainArtist - Ethan Johns, Producer, Engineer, Electric Guitar, Moog - Jeremy Stacey, Drums - Neil Cowley, Moog - Dom Monks, Engineer - Nick Pini, Bass - Todd Daniel Snider, Composer - Matt Colon, Engineer
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Paul Butler, Composer - Tom Jones, MainArtist - Ethan Johns, Producer, Percussion, Electric Piano, Strings, Synthesizer, Moog - Neil Cowley, Moog - Dom Monks, Engineer - Michael Kiwanuka, Composer - Nick Pini, Bass - Dan See, Bass Drums
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Michael Scott, Composer - Tom Jones, MainArtist - Ethan Johns, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Strings, Synthesizer, Moog - Neil Cowley, Organ - Dom Monks, Engineer - Nick Pini, Bass - Dan See, Drums
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Bob Dylan, Composer - Tom Jones, MainArtist - Ethan Johns, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Moog - Neil Cowley, Organ, Synthesizer - Dom Monks, Engineer - Nick Pini, Bass - Dan See, Drums
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Tom Jones, Composer, MainArtist - Ethan Johns, Composer, Producer, Percussion, Bass, Synthesizer, Moog, Hammer Dulcimer - Neil Cowley, Organ - Mark Woodward, Composer - Dom Monks, Engineer - Nick Pini, Bass - Dan See, Drums
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Tom Jones, MainArtist - Ethan Johns, Producer, Percussion, Synthesizer, Moog - Jeremy Stacey, Drums - Neil Cowley, Piano - Dom Monks, Engineer - Tony White, Composer - Nick Pini, Bass
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Tom Jones, MainArtist - Ethan Johns, Producer, Loops - Neil Cowley, Piano - Dom Monks, Engineer, Loops - Bobby Cole, Composer
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Terry Callier, Composer - Tom Jones, MainArtist - Ethan Johns, Producer, Electric Guitar, Synthesizer, Moog - Neil Cowley, Fender Rhodes Piano - Mark Woodward, Percussion - Dom Monks, Engineer - Nick Pini, Bass - Dan See, Drums
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DISC 2
Bob Dylan, Composer - Tom Jones, MainArtist - Ethan Johns, Producer, Electric Guitar - Jeremy Stacey, Drums - Neil Cowley, Synthesizer - Dom Monks, Engineer, Recorded by - Matt Colton, Engineer - Nick Pini, Bass
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Tom Jones, MainArtist - Ethan Johns, Producer, Bells, Percussion, Marimba - Jeremy Stacey, Drums - Neil Cowley, Synthesizer - Dom Monks, Engineer, Recorded by - Katell Keineg, Composer - Matt Colton, Engineer - Nick Pini, Bass Moog - Izzie Yardley, Backing Vocals - Delilah Johns, Backing Vocals - Georgina Johns, Backing Vocals
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Tom Jones, MainArtist - Scott McKeon, Guitar - Dom Monks, Engineer, Recorded by - Dave Bronze, Bass - Bernice Johnson Reagon, Composer - Matt Colton, Engineer - Gary Wallis, Drums, Additional Production - Ben Jones, Guitar - Matteo Cifelli, Engineer - Paddy Milner, Keyboards - Rosie Blackaller, Keyboards
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Tom Jones, Composer, MainArtist - Ethan Johns, Composer - Mark Woodward, Composer - Scott McKeon, Guitar - Dom Monks, Engineer, Recorded by - Dave Bronze, Bass - Matt Colton, Engineer - Gary Wallis, Drums, Additional Production - Ben Jones, Guitar - Matteo Cifelli, Engineer - Paddy Milner, Keyboards - Rosie Blackaller, Keyboards
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Tom Jones, MainArtist - Scott McKeon, Guitar - Dom Monks, Engineer, Recorded by - Dave Bronze, Bass - Matt Colton, Engineer - Gary Wallis, Drums, Additional Production - Ben Jones, Guitar - Tony White, Composer - Matteo Cifelli, Engineer - Paddy Milner, Keyboards - Rosie Blackaller, Keyboards
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Michael Scott, Composer - Tom Jones, MainArtist - Scott McKeon, Guitar - Dom Monks, Engineer, Recorded by - Dave Bronze, Bass - Matt Colton, Engineer - Gary Wallis, Drums, Additional Production - Ben Jones, Guitar - Matteo Cifelli, Engineer - Paddy Milner, Keyboards - Rosie Blackaller, Keyboards
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Paul Butler, Composer - Michael Scott, Composer - Bob Dylan, Composer - Tom Jones, MainArtist, Spoken Voice Vocals - Cat Stevens, Composer - Bernice Johnson Reagon, Composer - Katell Keineg, Composer - Bobby Cole, Composer - Matt Colton, Engineer - Michael Kiwanuka, Composer - Tony White, Composer - Todd Daniel Snider, Composer - Laura Druce, Producer - Pete Paphides, Spoken Voice Vocals
© 2021 Red Window Limited under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2021 Red Window Limited under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Album review
Surrounded by Time is Tom Jones' 42nd album, his first since the passing of wife Linda in 2016. Since 1965, the Welsh vocalist, possessed of a singular booming baritone, has sung almost every form of popular music of all stripes. This is Jones' fourth album with producer Ethan Johns, and includes his manager/son Mark Woodward as co-producer.
Surrounded by Time differs from Jones' previous outings with Johns, which were rooted in Americana sources. The set opens with a sparsely orchestrated reinvention of Bernice Johnson Reagon's activist classic "I Won't Crumble with You If You Fall." Jones performs the lyric like a gospel preacher atop Neil Cowley's and Johns' layered Moogs, Nick Pini's arco bass, and Dan See's mallets. He follows with a glorious version of Michel Legrand's "The Windmills of Your Mind." His delivery is at once dramatic and resonant, balancing reverie, desire, and pathos, while draped in post-electro sequencers, organ, Moog, and brooding rhythms. Jones chose Cat Stevens' "Pop Star" because it reminded him of his first brush with fame. Johns paints the jagged arrangement with Chamberlins, Mellotrons, DFAM, sitar, and acoustic guitars, providing urgency alongside the singer's joy. Jones offers Malvina Reynolds' topical folk gem "No Hole in My Head" as organ-drenched psychedelic rock, complete with droning tambouras and electric guitars. His take of Michael Kiwanuka's "I Won't Lie" is colored by airy synths, acoustic guitars, bird calls, and satellite sounds. Jones' delivery is uncharacteristically tender, intimate, even vulnerable. The singer renders Mike Scott's "This Is the Sea" with the passionate authority of a blues singer. Acoustic guitars and organ simmer and soar alongside his roaring vocal as the rhythm section (barely) tethers them to earth. The singer reads Bob Dylan's foreboding "One More Cup of Coffee" through the mistakes of his youth. Amid the slurry instrumental swirl, a plodding upright bass exhorts Jones to face his darkness. He surrenders, offering the line "One more cup of coffee before I go/To the valley below" with chilling intensity. Organs, synth pads, Moogs, and guitars paint a spaghetti western backdrop as Jones goes deep on Tony Joe White's "Ol' Mother Earth." He delivers it as a solemn elegy for the planet. Composer Bobby Cole presented Jones with "I'm Growing Old" when the singer was 35; feeling he was too young to sing it then, he promised to cut it when he turned 80. Ambient sonics and disembodied voices float by, then vanish as Jones begins a desolate croon, accompanied only by Cowley's haunted piano. Jones chose Terry Callier's "Lazarus Man" as a set closer. After a spacey electronic intro, silvery guitars, droning bass, Rhodes piano, and thundering drums offer a sonic maelstrom in blues, spiritual soul, and rock. Jones embraces it all, passionately affirming the lyric as a manifesto for whatever time remains to him. Surrounded by Time is magnificent -- it's redolent with wisdom and a raging lust for life that is free of camp. It offers abundant proof that despite the passing of years, Jones has lost none his power or swagger.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:49:53
- Main artists: Tom Jones
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2021 Red Window Limited under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2021 Red Window Limited under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
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