1. Tower Of Song – Tom Jones – A
2. Where Can I Go – Laura Marling – A+
3. The Low Highway – Steve Earle And The Dukes – A-
4. Sweet Hoody – Shellshag – A
5. You Make Me Feel So Young – Michael Buble – B
6. You're Gone – Diamond Rio — A
7. Fall Down – Will I AM, Miley Cyrus – B
8. Border Song – Elton John – A
9. Water No Get Enemy – Femu Kuti, D'Angelo – A-
10. Supernatural Love – Fantasia, Big KRIT – A
Comment: I dismissed Tom Jone's Leonard Cohen cover earlier this week, but it caught up with me, his deep bass vocal is sturdier and more aggressive than Cohen's stately bemusement. A like like "I was born with the gift of a golden voice" sounds like self-deprecation when Cohen sings it (in concert, it receives a roar of approval but also a few checkles), when Tom Jones sings it it is all swagger. And the poetry of "the rich find their channels in the bedrooms of the poor" becomes political when the son of a Welsh coal miner sings it.