Surrounded By Time

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The announcement of Surrounded by Time came on 15 January 2021, with its release date and track listing being revealed. They recorded the album into 2020 with Jones finishing the last of the album's vocals immediately prior to the beginning of a lockdown caused by the increased severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. it instead comes across as something of a send off - a release that embraces the gravitas and legacy of Tom’s life and attempts to tie up the loose ends. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received a weighted average score of 83, based on 9 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Surrounded by Time is the fourth album Jones has made with Ethan Johns, the producer who resurrected the Welshman’s career with a trio of rootsy Americana records.

After Jones had recovered from his wife's passing, he resumed touring and continued for a few years. Sir Tom Jones opens up about making new album Surrounded By Time and starting again after the death of his wife. A repackaged expanded edition of Surrounded by Time, named The Hourglass Edition, was announced on 19 October 2021. His barnacled baritone steers a steady course through Moog-soaked covers of favourite songs, with sombre lines about dark oceans, soulless days, and skirting a skeleton coast. Jones and Johns later recorded their third album together, Long Lost Suitcase, and released it in 2015.Jones has sold over 100million records with thirty-six Top 40 hits in the United Kingdom, twenty-two in Canada, and nineteen in the United States, including " It's Not Unusual", " What's New Pussycat", " Delilah", " Green, Green Grass of Home", " She's a Lady", " Kiss", and " Sex Bomb". Surrounded by Time is the 41st studio album by Welsh singer Tom Jones, released on 23 April 2021 through EMI Records internationally and S-Curve Records in the United States. The third single from the album, " One More Cup of Coffee", originally written by Bob Dylan, was released on 18 March. He additionally praised Jones' desire to freely record whatever he pleases despite being primarily known for "belting out ' It's Not Unusual' at Hampton Court Palace and the Rhyl Events Arena".

From there, he launches into an existentially resigned take on the trippy “The Windmills of Your Mind”, which won the 1969 Oscar for Best Song when it featured in The Thomas Crown Affair.He gathered his son, Mark Woodward, along with Johns and a group of session musicians to begin recording a new album in 2019. Additional recording took place at Johns' Three Crows East studio in Wiltshire and the Bert Jansch Studio in Frome.