Tom Jones: Long Lost Suitcase - 2015

This is another fine album, this time concentrating on folky and r'n'b covers, some of which are in the vein of Bruce Springsteen's Seeger Sessions, some are Delta blues interpretations others just drip with a muscular sixties bluesy, r'n'b attitude. 

Jones, as if it would ever not be the case, let's be honest, copes with everything the songs throw at him like the big old Welsh, coal-fired powerhouse that he is. The man has the blues running through his veins, along with a huge dose of instinctive soul too. Top notch stuff. 

Covered here is The Rolling Stones' Factory Girl, two country rock standards in He Was A Friend Of Mine and Why Don't You Love Me Like You Used To Do? and Billy Boy Arnold/The Yardbirds/David Bowie's rocking I Wish You Would

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