Songs We Love: Tom Jones, 'Done Somebody Wrong'
The one-time pop idol belts an Elmore James blues burner with a mighty maturity on this track from an all-star tribute album.
by Jim Allen
Nov 29, 2017
2 minutes
First comes the groove â that sexy, stormy, stop-time feel that still sounds as arresting in the right hands today as it did when blues giant originated it on the aptly named Fire Records in 1960. Then, amid snarling slide guitar licks, comes barreling in, 10 times as big as life and preternaturally soulful, commanding attention to the point that
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