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Surrounded

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*Surrounded by Time* is a late-career studio album by Welsh singer Tom Jones, released in 2021, built from reinterpretations of songs written by other artists. Produced by Ethan Johns, it continues a long-running partnership that favors spare, weighty arrangements and leaves room for the grain of Jones’s voice. In New York City it has circulated less as a “premiere” event than as a reference point in listening rooms and radio programming, an example of how legacy performers can reframe American songwriting without nostalgia as a crutch. One clear takeaway is its discipline: the album rarely overexplains itself.