Surrounded By Time

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Johns is a canny operator, and he knows how to get to the essence of Jones, and you have to admit, even when something doesn’t work it grabs your attention. When I heard that song, I thought, ‘Oh my God, it’s like the last two weeks that I had with my wife. Around the same time, qualified psychologists began reporting how clients were considering leaving their partners because, “I can’t possibly live with a yellow person”. Sir Tom Jones moves fellow coach Anne-Marie to tears during emotional song tribute to late wife on The Voice UK".

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Johns both recognises the elemental force of Jones’ voice, the thing that made the valleys’ boy the hot ticket in LA in the late sixties when he fronted his award-winning hit prime time show with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Janis Joplin, and Sammy Davis Jnr queuing up to perform with him. This version was translated in to English and edited by David Sumpter, professor of mathematics at Uppsala University.He never used to, he says, but at 81, he now gives plenty of consideration to how he will be remembered. Prior to her death, Woodward encouraged Jones to continue recording and performing music after her passing. Here, Jones and Johns finesse a substantial goalpost shift, from live-in-the-room authenticity to a spooked, digitised sound doubtless necessitated by current circumstances, capturing the unsettled contemporary mood. Surrounded By Time is an often intriguing and always successful collection that ranges from the surely-he's-done-this-before balladry of The Windmills Of Your Mind to I-can't-believe-he's-done-that choices like The Waterboys' This Is The Sea and Michael Kiwanuka's I Won't Lie. It debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, making Jones the oldest male to earn a number-one UK album, and charted within the top 25 in five other countries.

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Jones and Johns later recorded their third album together, Long Lost Suitcase, and released it in 2015. Although while this is a cover album, it doesn't stop the fact that the performances are absolutely amazing on almost every track.

Ethan Johns’ arrangement seemed to push him into a fresh space, while the half-spoken vocal managed to conjure the ghosts of Hank Williams while still sounding resolutely new. Every song feels calculated one way or another and feels like the work of a perfectionist, and it is stunning. The instrumentation varies, with some noisy, distorted guitar driven tracks, moments of serene minimalist synths, raw acoustic guitars, sweeping background violins, and more.