Praise & Blame

From a distance, Tom Jones’ new Praise & Blame seems like just another Johnny Cash-style comeback by an aging star. And in a sense, it is. But Jones is a pop artist, and as such, he has every right to latch onto whatever trend he likes. With Praise & Blame, however, he’s done more than shallowly recasting himself as a…

The Welsh belter has reinvented himself as a man of gravitas – and he's succeeded, reckons <strong>Michael Hann</strong>

Album Reviews: Tom Jones - Praise & Blame

By far Jones’s best album in two decades or more and it isn't made up of hymns. Rating: * * * *

Praise & Blame Island ****