{"id":8324,"date":"2012-12-27T23:53:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T06:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2012-12-27T23:53:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T06:53:11","slug":"amy-winehouse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/12\/amy-winehouse-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AMY WINEHOUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8325\" title=\"AMY-WINEHOUSE-M-Review-NOV-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AMY-WINEHOUSE-M-Review-NOV-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AMY-WINEHOUSE-M-Review-NOV-2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AMY-WINEHOUSE-M-Review-NOV-2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>A<\/strong><strong>MY WINEHOUSE<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>At the BBC\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Universal Republic]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Thankfully, the second posthumous Winehouse release isn\u2019t filled with scraps that didn\u2019t make last year\u2019s <em>Lioness<\/em>. Drawn from BBC appearances, it reminds listeners what a charismatic vocalist Winehouse was. The early material, recorded circa 2004\u2019s <em>Frank<\/em> album, showcases Winehouse\u2019s jazz roots, pairing her sultry, scat-like singing with big band arrangements. The handful of tracks from her 2006 breakthrough <em>Back to Black<\/em>, including her signature \u201cRehab,\u201d mine more of an R&amp;B groove. These tracks highlight the all-too-real heartache in her brassy, bruised voice\u2014a quality that distinguishes her from other retro-soul songstresses. The final four selections\u2014covers ranging from the Sarah Vaughan standard \u201cLullaby of Birdland\u201d to \u201cValerie,\u201d a bluesy rock ballad from the Liverpool group the Zutons\u2014reflect her range of influences and ability to make songs her own. This well-assembled set, which also includes a DVD, shifts the focus to her singing\u2014something often overshadowed by her lifestyle. \u2013Michael Berick<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMY WINEHOUSE At the BBC\u00a0 [Universal Republic] Thankfully, the second posthumous Winehouse release isn\u2019t filled with scraps that didn\u2019t make last year\u2019s Lioness. Drawn from BBC appearances, it reminds listeners what a charismatic vocalist Winehouse was. The early material, recorded circa 2004\u2019s Frank album, showcases Winehouse\u2019s jazz roots, pairing her sultry, scat-like singing with big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2986,5586,5475,2629],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8326,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions\/8326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}