Product Description
Co-produced by Ethan Johns and Mark Woodward, Surrounded By Time marks out new territory with a sonic landscape of
outstanding musicianship and a vocal delivery that re-imagines a diverse set of songs of personal importance that have impacted Tom Jones throughout a long, unpredictable but undeniably impressive career.
Surrounded By Time inhabits new ground, with Talking Reality Television Blues a startling opener that catalogues the
impact and changing role of television from its beginning to current times. A driving, almost menacing track accompanies a
cool, spoken-word vocal from a performer who has an intimate personal and working knowledge of this cultural force. As
Tom explains, ”I was there when TV started -- didn’t know I’d become a part of it -- but it could be that its power is to
remind us how wonderful, crazy and inventive we are, but also how scary the reality it reflects can be.”
