Burning Hell
Tom Jones | Artist Essentials
First released: 2010 (year verified)
Original 2010 main live-in-studio performance, approximately 3:27; not the Wood Room bonus version
MusicAtlas editorial note: The main studio performance sets the weathered vocal against a hard, spare instrumental pulse.
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Release evidence and recording details
First released: 2010 (year verified)
The artist announced the main Burning Hell recording as a 2010 advance seven-inch release before Praise & Blame. It was performed live in the studio, not at a public concert. The separately labeled Wood Room bonus is a different presentation; no album day or session date replaces the supported first year.
Recording: Original 2010 main live-in-studio performance, approximately 3:27; not the Wood Room bonus version
Credit: Tom Jones
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original single: Burning Hell / What Good Am I?
Praise & Blame - main studio performance versus bonus version
The licensed 2010 album distinguishes the main approximately 3:27 Burning Hell performance from the shorter, explicitly labeled Ethan John's Wood Room Version bonus. The main performance is selected. The artist's advance-single announcement establishes public release before the album within 2010. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Praise & Blame - official advance Burning Hell release announcement
The artist's May 2010 announcement identifies Burning Hell with What Good Am I? as a June advance seven-inch release before the July album. The original release year is therefore 2010; an exact worldwide first day is not inferred from one announced edition. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Praise & Blame - official live-in-studio recording context
The artist's discography identifies the 2010 album, Ethan Johns and the live-in-studio approach at Real World. This describes the recording method and does not make the selected performance a concert recording or date it by its session. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
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About Tom Jones
Tom Jones grew up in Pontypridd, South Wales, and sang in clubs before signing with Decca. His early records placed a powerful voice within compact pop arrangements, while his repertoire continued to draw on rhythm and blues and country music. Reload later brought that voice into explicitly credited collaborations with other performers. His work with Ethan Johns moved toward more exposed studio arrangements, including the live-in-studio performances of Praise & Blame and the varied songwriting repertoire of Spirit in the Room.
Artist background sources
Tom Jones - official artist biography
The artist's biography establishes his upbringing in Pontypridd, South Wales, club work before Decca, broad rhythm-and-blues interests, the 1999 Reload collaborations and later work with Ethan Johns. Praise & Blame was performed live in the studio, not recorded at a public concert; Spirit in the Room followed in 2012. Current commercial totals and promotional superlatives are not reproduced. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Tom Jones interview - recording versus release of It's Not Unusual
In the artist-hosted interview, Jones distinguishes recording It's Not Unusual in 1964 from its public release in 1965. The interview also discusses his broad interpretive song choices. No session year is substituted for the released recording year. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Reload - official original album and collaboration program
The artist's actual discography page identifies Reload as a 1999 album and provides its original seventeen-track duet program. The featured identities are retained from the licensed original track credits rather than abbreviated to a solo credit. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Praise & Blame - official live-in-studio recording context
The artist's discography identifies the 2010 album, Ethan Johns and the live-in-studio approach at Real World. This describes the recording method and does not make the selected performance a concert recording or date it by its session. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Spirit in the Room - official original release
The artist's actual original-album page establishes the May 2012 release and work with Ethan Johns at Real World. This supports the earlier original year of Tower of Song before the later licensed US package date. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-18. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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