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10.0
14787
10.0 |
The Independent
Overall, it's an extraordinary achievement
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8.2
15295
8.2 |
PopMatters
Jones has demonstrated with a new album that it’s never too late in the game to take an inspiring artistic step forward
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8.0
14785
8.0 |
The Guardian
At last Jones the artist is the match of Jones the entertainer
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8.0
14897
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
The record is simply a great set of gospel-infused standards that Jones has expertly made his own with his style, charisma and Jones-iness
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8.0
15053
8.0 |
State
While Johnny Cash’s final albums had an increasingly fatalistic tone, this is very much the sound of a man in the later stages of life having a ball. Gimmick or not, all power to him
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8.0
14788
8.0 |
The Irish Times
What shines through everything here is the sincerity of the artist; this is no cheap gimmick to refresh his marketability
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8.0
14800
8.0 |
NME
Print edition only
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8.0
14803
8.0 |
Evening Standard
Apparently, someone at Jones's record label has made rude noises about this album. He needs a hearing aid
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8.0
14805
8.0 |
The Fly
Just like Johnny Cash before him, it could be enough to warrant a revival of cool, no easy feat for a 70 year-old man used to being hit with underwear
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8.0
14612
8.0 |
musicOMH
If you've never even considered owning a Tom Jones record before, give Praise & Blame a try. It may well surprise you
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8.0
14613
8.0 |
Daily Telegraph
With its loose, spontaneous sound, and the all-pervasive sense of artistic rebirth, the album even has something of his old pal Elvis Presley’s ’68 Comeback about it. Either way, it’s a revelation
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8.0
14657
8.0 |
Mojo
Few singers with a popular background are going to emerge with an album as remarkable as this during 2010. Print edition only
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7.0
14823
7.0 |
The Observer
Aficionados tend to prefer revamped legends whispery and contrite, rather than vigorous and finger-clicking... It is also very hard to excise the twinkle from Jones's eye; he just can't resist hamming it up
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6.0
14860
6.0 |
Q
As ever, Jones's strength and weakness is that voice of his. Print edition only
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6.0
15206
6.0 |
Uncut
The 70-year-old's pipes remain a fearsome piece of artillery. Print edition only
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6.0
14683
6.0 |
The Scotsman
Though not the most subtle of vocal stylists, he has a good old stab at the less-is-more territory inhabited so utterly by Cash in the American Recordings series he made with Rick Rubin
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6.0
14686
6.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
It sometimes smacks of a sepia-tinted quickie wedding chapel rather than the gnarled wood of the pews in his local church in Pontypridd, but his honest intentions prevail
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6.0
14820
6.0 |
Independent on Sunday
Its sound is rootsy in a Willie Nelson-meets-White Stripes vein, and Jones' septuagenar-ian rasp suits it well
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5.0
14616
5.0 |
BBC
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
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