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Written by KZYR
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
U2 Leaders to join Tom Jones on his next CD release of original material.
After 15 years without a new album in the U.S., Tom Jones will release a disc of almost entirely original material this fall.
The
68-year-old singer will release "24 Hours" on Nov. 25 via S-Curve
Records. It's a retro-tinged album much in the style of Amy Winehouse's
"Back to Black" that finds the Welshman's voice as strong as ever.
There are two covers on the album -- Bruce Springsteen's "The Hitter" and "I'm Alive" by Tommy James and the Shondells
-- but the rest Jones either co-wrote or collaborated with the
songwriters. Bono and the Edge of U2 guest on the song "Sugar Daddy."
"The
fire is still in me," Jones told the Associated Press in a recent
interview, speaking by phone from his home in Los Angeles. "Not to be
an oldie, but a goodie. I want to be a contender."
"I
wanted my voice to sound as natural as possible," Jones said of the
album. "The arrangements and the production needs to be modern, but the
vocal needs to sound like me."
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