- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Q MagazineJun 20, 2012He thrives when bringing gravitas to the sparse blues of Soul Of a Man and extraordinary tenderness to the Low Anthem Charlie Darwin. [Jun 2012, p.105]
-
May 31, 2012Like the late Johnny Cash, Jones has reinterpreted the venerable songs in a bare, bluesy style. Unlike Cash, he never quite makes them his own.
-
May 21, 2012The album has to be judged a late-period triumph, even if I am not entirely convinced The Voice's avuncular judge is quite as deep as the material demands.
-
May 21, 2012It's never as rollicking as 2010's Praise and Blame, though a version of Tom Waits' Bad As Me will sound agreeably demented to anyone who's never heard the original.
-
May 21, 2012Ultimately, you conclude, Jones's golden voice was built for hooting, hollering and hubba-hubba-ing at the ladies, not mulling things over.
-
May 21, 2013Covers of Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits are good fits; elsewhere, his off the leash vibrato oversells.
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 3 out of 4
-
Mixed: 1 out of 4
-
Negative: 0 out of 4
-
Aug 8, 2012
-
May 31, 2012Tom Jones na "Spirit In The Room" zamieÅ