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The qualities of a vocal genius don't always become clear when she's singing classic material. Often as not, her abilities to both personalize and transcend a lifeless song with a stellar performance reveal the character behind the singer. Both Billie Holiday and Otis Redding excelled no matter what they were recording, whether it was a timeless standard or a studio throwaway. This collection of Amy Winehouse material, released to coincide with the first Christmas season after her death in July 2011, does not contain a strong set of material. Besides the covers, which are well chosen, originals "Between the Cheats" and "Best Friends, Right?" and "Half Time" should not have survived the cut if Winehouse had been around to wield her veto power. But if the songwriting isn’t strong enough to make listeners confuse this with a Back to Black follow-up, the productions and performances are up to her high caliber. Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson handled virtually all of the production work, while these performances by Winehouse are just as strong as she showed on Frank and Back to Black. Thanks to the work of Remi and Ronson, the album is also strikingly uniform; only the songwriting and prevalence of covers or "original versions" reveal that this is a posthumous collection. Ronson's production on "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" is towering, although he injects a little more drama into his chart than the song can support, while a skittering version of "The Girl from Ipanema" (nearly drum’n’bass at points) nearly reinvents a tired classic. The recordings stretch from the beginning of her professional career to close to the end, but Winehouse is virtually always in strong voice; only on her Tony Bennett duet, “Body and Soul,” does she veer into self-parody.
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Mort Garson, ComposerLyricist - Bob Hilliard, ComposerLyricist - SALAAM REMI, Producer, Guitar, Organ, Piano, Keyboard, DrumKit, BassVocalist, RecordingArranger - Stuart Hawkes, MasteringEngineer - Amy Winehouse, Vocalist, MainArtist - Gary Noble, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Vincent Henry, Flute, Guitar, Horn, HornArranger - Troy Auxilly-Wilson, DrumKit - Xavier Stephenson, MixingSecondEngineer - Zalon Thompson, VocalArranger - Gleyder "Gee" Disla, RecordingEngineer - Zalon, BackgroundVocalist - Shomari Dillon, RecordingSecondEngineer - Heshima Thompson, VocalArranger - Heshima, BackgroundVocalist - Neil Dyer, RecordingSecondEngineer - Bruce Clayton Purse, Trumpet, GlassHarp
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
John Adams, Keyboard - SALAAM REMI, Producer, Bells, Guitar, Piano, ComposerLyricist, DrumKit, BassVocalist, RecordingArranger - Stuart Hawkes, MasteringEngineer - Amy Winehouse, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Gary Noble, MixingEngineer - Vincent Henry, Guitar, Saxophone - Greg Freeman, RecordingSecondEngineer - Xavier Stephenson, MixingSecondEngineer - Stephen Coleman, StringArranger - Glen Lewis, BackgroundVocalist - Zalon Thompson, VocalArranger - Gleyder "Gee" Disla, RecordingEngineer - Zalon, BackgroundVocalist - Heshima Thompson, VocalArranger - Heshima, BackgroundVocalist - Neil Dyer, RecordingSecondEngineer
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
NICKOLAS ASHFORD, ComposerLyricist - Valerie Simpson, ComposerLyricist - John Adams, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Keyboard - SALAAM REMI, Producer, Guitar, BackgroundVocalist, DrumKit, BassVocalist, RecordingArranger - Stuart Hawkes, MasteringEngineer - Amy Winehouse, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Gary Noble, MixingEngineer - Vincent Henry, Flute, Guitar, Saxophone, HornArranger - Frank Socorro, RecordingEngineer - Xavier Stephenson, MixingSecondEngineer - Zalon Thompson, VocalArranger - Tim Davies, StringArranger - Gleyder "Gee" Disla, RecordingEngineer - Zalon, BackgroundVocalist - Heshima Thompson, VocalArranger - Heshima, BackgroundVocalist - Neil Dyer, RecordingSecondEngineer
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Mark Ronson, Producer, StringArranger, RecordingArranger - Gabriel Roth, Engineer - Homer Steinweiss, DrumKit - Thomas Brenneck, Guitar - Carole King, ComposerLyricist - Gerry Goffin, ComposerLyricist - Michel Vendome, Translator - Perry Montague-Mason, Concertmaster - Stuart Hawkes, MasteringEngineer - Nick Movshon, BassVocalist - Tom Elmhirst, MixingEngineer - Vaughan Merrick, Engineer - Ian Hendrickson-Smith, Saxophone - Dave Guy, Trumpet - Binky Griptite, Guitar - Wayne Gordon, Engineer - Saundra Williams, BackgroundVocalist - Victor Axelrod, Piano - Amy Winehouse, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist - Chris Elliot, StringArranger - Ben Baptie, MixingSecondEngineer - Sam Wheat, RecordingEngineer - Steve Musters, RecordingEngineer - Cochemea Gastelum, Saxophone - Kevin Keys, BackgroundVocalist - Angela Blake, BackgroundVocalist
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Nasir Jones, ComposerLyricist - SALAAM REMI, Producer, Guitar, ComposerLyricist, DrumKit, BassVocalist, RecordingArranger - Stuart Hawkes, MasteringEngineer - James Poyser, Keyboard - Amy Winehouse, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Gary Noble, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Vincent Henry, Guitar, HornArranger - Frank Socorro, RecordingEngineer - Nas, Vocalist, FeaturedArtist - The Czech Film Orchestra, StringQuartet - Greg Freeman, RecordingSecondEngineer - Xavier Stephenson, MixingSecondEngineer - Dale Davis, Guitar, BassVocalist - Zalon Thompson, VocalArranger - Tim Davies, StringArranger - Gleyder "Gee" Disla, RecordingEngineer - Zalon, BackgroundVocalist - Heshima Thompson, VocalArranger - Heshima, BackgroundVocalist - Neil Dyer, RecordingSecondEngineer
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Norman Gimbel, ComposerLyricist - Vinicius De Moraes, ComposerLyricist - António Carlos Jobim, ComposerLyricist - SALAAM REMI, Producer, DrumKit, BassVocalist, RecordingArranger - Stuart Hawkes, MasteringEngineer - Amy Winehouse, Guitar, MainArtist - Gary Noble, MixingEngineer - Vincent Henry, Flute, Guitar, Saxophone, HornArranger - Ben Jackson, RecordingEngineer - Scott McCormick, RecordingEngineer - Xavier Stephenson, MixingSecondEngineer - Stephen Coleman, StringArranger - Zalon Thompson, VocalArranger - Gleyder "Gee" Disla, RecordingEngineer - Zalon, BackgroundVocalist - Heshima Thompson, VocalArranger - Heshima, BackgroundVocalist - Neil Dyer, RecordingSecondEngineer
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Fin Greenall, ComposerLyricist - SALAAM REMI, Producer, RecordingArranger - Stuart Hawkes, MasteringEngineer - James Poyser, Flute, Synthesizer - Amy Winehouse, Guitar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Gary Noble, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, DrumKit - Xavier Stephenson, MixingSecondEngineer - Zalon Thompson, VocalArranger - Zalon, AdditionalVocalist - Shomari Dillon, RecordingSecondEngineer - Heshima Thompson, VocalArranger - Heshima, AdditionalVocalist
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Stuart Hawkes, MasteringEngineer - Tom Elmhirst, MixingEngineer - Amy Winehouse, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, AcousticGuitar - Paul O'Duffy, Producer, Vibraphone, ComposerLyricist, RecordingEngineer, BassVocalist, RecordingArranger, RhythmProgrammer
℗ 2006 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
John Adams, Vibraphone, Synthesizer, Keyboard - SALAAM REMI, Producer, DrumKit, BassVocalist, RecordingArranger - Stuart Hawkes, MasteringEngineer - Amy Winehouse, Guitar, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Gary Noble, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Vincent Henry, Clarinet, Flute, Saxophone, HornArranger - Xavier Stephenson, MixingSecondEngineer - Shomari Dillon, RecordingSecondEngineer - Bruce Clayton Purse, Trumpet
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Leon Russell, ComposerLyricist - John Adams, Organ, Piano, Keyboard - SALAAM REMI, Producer, DrumKit, BassVocalist, RecordingArranger - Stuart Hawkes, MasteringEngineer - Amy Winehouse, Vocalist, MainArtist - Gary Noble, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Vincent Henry, Clarinet, Flute, Guitar, Saxophone, HornArranger - Frank Socorro, RecordingEngineer - Xavier Stephenson, MixingSecondEngineer - Stephen Coleman, StringArranger - Gleyder "Gee" Disla, RecordingEngineer - Neil Dyer, RecordingSecondEngineer
℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Review: Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures
The qualities of a vocal genius don't always become clear when she's singing classic material. Often as not, her abilities to both personalize and transcend a lifeless song with a stellar performance reveal the character behind the singer. Both Billie Holiday and Otis Redding excelled no matter what they were recording, whether it was a timeless standard or a studio throwaway. This collection of Amy Winehouse material, released to coincide with the first Christmas season after her death in July 2011, does not contain a strong set of material. Besides the covers, which are well chosen, originals "Between the Cheats" and "Best Friends, Right?" and "Half Time" should not have survived the cut if Winehouse had been around to wield her veto power. But if the songwriting isn’t strong enough to make listeners confuse this with a Back to Black follow-up, the productions and performances are up to her high caliber. Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson handled virtually all of the production work, while these performances by Winehouse are just as strong as she showed on Frank and Back to Black. Thanks to the work of Remi and Ronson, the album is also strikingly uniform; only the songwriting and prevalence of covers or "original versions" reveal that this is a posthumous collection. Ronson's production on "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" is towering, although he injects a little more drama into his chart than the song can support, while a skittering version of "The Girl from Ipanema" (nearly drum’n’bass at points) nearly reinvents a tired classic. The recordings stretch from the beginning of her professional career to close to the end, but Winehouse is virtually always in strong voice; only on her Tony Bennett duet, “Body and Soul,” does she veer into self-parody.
© John Bush /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:45:11
- Main artists: Amy Winehouse
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal-Island Records Ltd.
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited, Licensed exclusively to Universal Republic Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. 1755 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10019. Distributed by Universal Music Distribution. FBI ℗ 2011 Universal Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited, Licensed exclusively to Universal Republic Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. 1755 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10019. Distributed by Universal Music Distribution. FBI
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