Surrounded By Time

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Tom Jones began working with record producer Ethan Johns, who had worked with acts such as Kings of Leon, Joe Cocker, and Crowded House, in 2009. He performed the song live on The Graham Norton Show two days later and was briefly interviewed by Norton after the performance. 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".

That was four years after the working-class lad from Wales scored his first No 1 single with “It’s Not Unusual” (1965) and the same year that he breached the Top 10 with “Love Me Tonight” and “Without Love (There is Nothing)”. Jones received a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1966, an MTV Video Music Award in 1989, and two Brit Awards: Best British Male in 2000 and the Outstanding Contribution to Music award in 2003.The Guardian 's Alexis Petridis wrote a less favourable review of the album, but still enjoyed parts of it; he praised certain cover versions while stating "the other experiments are a mixed bag. Afterward, Jones followed Woodward's advice and sold their Los Angeles mansion, subsequently moving to a flat in London. The third single from the album, " One More Cup of Coffee", originally written by Bob Dylan, was released on 18 March. Johns had told Island Records that he wanted to work with Jones the most, and the label eventually brought the two together. He gathered his son, Mark Woodward, along with Johns and a group of session musicians to begin recording a new album in 2019.

Lisa Wright of DIY also considered it to go beyond a typical covers album, writing that "ostensibly a covers collection . But it’s also powerfully about the miracle of the life we have when our desire and ability to sing can seem impossible.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. 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. hadn’t made him look elsewhere, Jones sings from the perspective of a man who still can’t believe his luck: “See me mama!