At the height of Tom Jones’s notoriety, besieged by knickers at every turn, the Welsh star was flanked either side by two of music’s most famous figures. “Frank Sinatra thought I should sing standards. ‘That’s what I want to hear from you,’” Jones told the Guardian recently. “Meanwhile, I had Elvis saying, “Don’t go there. Not standards. Leave that to Sinatra.” I was in the middle. I tried not to be too dizzied by it all.”
It is his friendship with Elvis, whom he met in 1965 when the King was filming Paradise, Hawaiian Style, that he celebrates on his latest album, Long Lost Suitcase. It is a companion album to Jones’s autobiography, Over the Top and Back.
Below is the video premiere of the sparse and atmospheric video for Elvis Presley Blues, written by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Watch the video and let us know what you think.
