Tom Jones - Praise And Blame (2010)

Artist: Tom Jones
Title Of Album: Praise & Blame
Year Of Release: Jul-22-2010
Genre: Pop
Label: Island (Universal)
Quality: VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Tracks: 11
Time: 38:13 min
Size: 44,6 MB


Tracklist

01. What Good Am I? 03:51
02. Lord Help 03:42
03. Did Trouble Me 04:16
04. Strange Things 03:01
05. Burning Hell 03:26
06. If I Give My Soul 03:30
07. Don't Knock 02:17
08. Nobody's Fault But Mine 03:41
09. Didn't It Rain 03:21
10. Ain't No Grave 03:09
11. Run On 03:59

This gospel and blues set is the back to basics gambit from Sir Tom.
ItТs worked for Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond in the past, this
stripping of vogues to expose the singerТs raw talent: perversely, it
endeared both to younger audiences. Yet Jones is a different entity:
his charm was never based on authenticity. In his early career he
shifted his pelvis and hollered cracking pop songs, and even his big
weepy ballads were knowingly camp. His comeback period Ц dreamed up
by his son/manager Ц was all irony and winks, targeted at hen parties
not critics. Blessed with a soulful voice, he made an unveiled
Faustian pact long ago.

Thus a move that should by rights be applauded and affecting Ц this
is, after all, a 70-year-old singing, often, about death Ц doesnТt
come off. ItТs a gauche mix of church and the rockТnТroll chestnuts
he grew up on. Outside Robert Plant, itТs hard to see who itТll
appeal to. A sincere reimagining of more arch songs Ц like Cash doing
Hurt Ц would have grabbed our throats and hearts. This, though, is an
old fella singing songs that mean little to anyone outside his
generation. ItТs like hearing war stories from wizened veterans: you
should, by any moral compass, be impressed and attentive, but the
guilty, undeniable truth is... youТre a little bored.

Ethan Johns (Kings of Leon, Paolo Nutini) produces Ц minimally Ц and
guests include Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings and BJ Cole. Songs were
recorded live and Tom relishes tackling the gothic-religious strains
of DylanТs What Good Am I and the bluesy tropes of John Lee HookerТs
Burning Hell. HeТs no slouch barking Sister Rosetta TharpeТs Strange
Things or Mahalia JacksonТs DidnТt It Rain. He means it, sure. Yet
these songs were what those people did, and Tom Jones is best at
doing something else. Tom without flash is like The Wizard of Oz
without a curtain. If you seek proof that he can cut it, and will
live forever, look at moments in his scrapbook like IТll Never Fall
in Love Again or IТm Coming Home, not here.


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Источник:Relax Music