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Listen to Tom Jones' new, Jack White produced cover of Howlin' Wolf's "Evil"

by Tyler Munro

We were a little caught off guard when Tom Jones was announced as the latest collaborator for Jack White’s Third Man Record’s Blue Series, but there was the sneaking suspicion that the two could work really well together.

Well the first of their two tracks has surfaced after its premiere on BBC Radio and, yeah, Jones’ cover of Howlin’ Wolf’s “Evil” absolutely works. Mixing the original’s blues backdrop with White’s sonic production and some of Jones’ theatrics, the cover winds up sounding eerily like a Tom Waits track. Unexpected, sure, but hell if it doesn’t sound awesome.

Listen to “Evil” below.

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