Tom Jones: Spirit in the Room -- review When Tom Jones sings about being 'born with the gift of a golden voice' on Spirit In The Room, he gives Leonard Cohen's line a different resonance. Before TV viewers ask, there is, thankfully, no version of U2's Beautiful Day on Tom Jones 's latest record. Like its successful predecessor, 2010's God-fearing Praise & Blame , Spirit in the Room is an album of covers. It does not feature Jones's most recent venture into other artists' material, however, in which the massed ranks (and we use the word "rank" advisedly) of Jones and his fellow judges on BBC1's The Voice performed cruel and unusual punishments upon Beautiful Day the other week. You almost felt for the Irish rock titans as the remains of their Day lay bleeding on to the set . On the other hand, neither does this album feature Jones's blistering cover of Howlin' Wolf's Evil , or his extraordinary take on Jezebel, recorded with Jack White in the manner of a satanic Delilah . Buy it from Jones's covers, then, can run the gamut from devilish to defibrillated; showbiz was always thus. Having made his peace with his maker on the previous record, he now salutes some of the 20th century's all-powerful writer-performers. There is some intriguing late material here from the two Pauls -- McCartney and Simon -- plus Leonard Cohen with a classic, and some songs from writers whose royalties aren't quite as stratospheric as all that,