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Tender Loving Care
Pop · 1985 · 10 tracks · 34m

Tender Loving Care

A surprising pivot to country-tinged pop. Jones trades his Vegas roar for a late-night Nashville sigh, heavy on pedal steel and sentimental storytelling.

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It's Tom Jones doing his best late-night Nashville impression, and it actually works.

A weary but warm collection of country-pop ballads that feels like a quiet conversation at a bar.

Tender Loving Care · vs · Tom Jones
Pedal Steel+3.0σ

The instrumentation foregrounds pedal steel far more than the catalogue usually does.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks · 34m
01
Not Another Heart Song
3:27
02
That’s All That Matters
3:16
03
It’s Four in the Morning
4:11
04
Dallas Darlin’
3:27
05
TLC
3:27
06
I Can Help
3:15
07
A Million Times Today
3:29
08
Love Burned a Hole in the Night
3:44
09
Still Enough of Us
3:15
10
Hold Me To It
3:24
Moments Worth Waiting For
The weary, lived-in delivery of the opening line on It's Four in the Morning.
The way the pedal steel sighs against the steady, mid-tempo beat of Dallas Darlin'.
The surprising restraint in the title track where the vocal power is traded for breathy intimacy.
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