Tom Jones - Praise & Blame
Tom Jones - Praise & Blame (2010)
EAC Rip | Flac (tracks) + Cue + Log | No scans | MP3 320 CBR | 247 MB / 92 MB
Gospel, Blues | Label: Mercury Nashville | Depositfiles + SM
EAC Rip | Flac (tracks) + Cue + Log | No scans | MP3 320 CBR | 247 MB / 92 MB
Gospel, Blues | Label: Mercury Nashville | Depositfiles + SM
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)
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EAC extraction logfile from 24. July 2010, 10:50
Tom Jones / Praise & Blame
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Tom Jones's 39th studio album sees him taking the Johnny Cash route: stripping away the showbiz fripperies and recording songs that are intended to capture the gravitas and depth of a man who has lived long and seen much. Indeed, Billy Joe Shaver's If I Give My Soul, which appears here, was also recorded by Cash for his American Recordings series. There are differences, though: few would suggest Jones is haunted by his past in the way Cash was. In fact, rarely has a man seemed less haunted. Still, it's a blistering album, at its best when Jones and his band – just guitar, bass and drums, with occasional organ and backing vocals in the style of the Jordanaires – cut loose: a version of John Lee Hooker's Burning Hell essays the dinosaur stomp of the White Stripes; Don't Knock matches the gospel message to kinetic rock'n'roll; Sister Rosetta Tharpe's Strange Things becomes a rockabilly shuffle. It's grand, and at last Jones the artist is the match of Jones the entertainer.
This gospel and blues set is the back to basics gambit from Sir Tom. It’s worked for Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond in the past, this stripping of vogues to expose the singer’s 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 – dreamed up by his son/manager – 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 – this is, after all, a 70-year-old singing, often, about death – doesn’t come off. It’s a gauche mix of church and the rock’n’roll chestnuts he grew up on. Outside Robert Plant, it’s hard to see who it’ll appeal to. A sincere reimagining of more arch songs – like Cash doing Hurt – would have grabbed our throats and hearts. This, though, is an old fella singing songs that mean little to anyone outside his generation. It’s like hearing war stories from wizened veterans: you should, by any moral compass, be impressed and attentive, but the guilty, undeniable truth is… you’re a little bored.
Ethan Johns (Kings of Leon, Paolo Nutini) produces – minimally – and guests include Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings and BJ Cole. Songs were recorded live and Tom relishes tackling the gothic-religious strains of Dylan’s What Good Am I and the bluesy tropes of John Lee Hooker’s Burning Hell. He’s no slouch barking Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s Strange Things or Mahalia Jackson’s Didn’t 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 I’ll Never Fall in Love Again or I’m Coming Home, not here.