pressing details
Factory-fresh • Universal Records • 180g • lyric inner • stereo • EU • £18.99
Well, nobody expected THIS. Her previous album Frank was a gem, albeit a primarily jazzy thang, but Back To Black took her to another planet. Mark Ronson joined Frank producer Salaam Remi, the jazz was jettisoned in favour of a blissfully rich yet attractively dirty retro style owing much to old school Motown soul and R&B. Hardly a new idea but the unique Winehouse voice makes it all vividly fresh again. Amy?s trump card is her ability to make it sound so grubbily authentic - probably because it IS grubbily authentic. She?s not fabricating the pain in Love Is A Losing Game or the despair of Back to Black and she ain?t kidding about on Rehab either. A heartbreaking classic.
Colin Irwin
1.Rehab (3:35)
2.You Know I'm No Good (4:17)
3.Me & Mr Jones (2:33)
4.Just Friends (3:13)
5.Back to Black (4:01)
6.Love is a Losing Game (2:35)
7.Tears Dry on Their Own (3:06)
8.Wake Up Alone (3:42)
9.Some Unholy War (2:22)
10.He Can Only Hold Her (2:46)
further information
Original label/catalogue number:
Island 1734128
Original date of release:
Oct-06
Personnel:
Amy Winehouse (vocals, guitar); Thomas Brenneck, Binky Griptite, Vincent Henry (guitar, flute, celesta); Nick Movshon (bass guitar); Salaam Remi (piano, guitar, bass guitar, upright bass); Victor Axelrod, Vincent Henry (piano, sax, clarinet); Andy Mackintosh, Chris Davis (alto sax); Neal Sugarman, Jamie Talbot, Mike Smith (tenor sax); Ian Hendrickson-Smith, Dave Bishop, Cochemea Gastelum (baritone sax); Richard Edwards (tenor trombone); Dave Guy, Steve Sidwell, Bruce Purse (trumpet, flugelhorn); Perry Montague-Mason (orchestra leader, violin); Chris Tombling, Mark Berrow, Warren Zielinski, Liz Edwards, Boguslav Kostecki, Peter Hanson, Jonathan Rees, Tom Piggott-Smith, Everton Nelson (violins); Bruce White, Jon Thorne, Katie Wilkinson, Rachel Bolt (violas); Anthony Pleeth, Joely Koos, John Heley (cellos); Helen Tunstall (harp); John Adams (organ); Frank Ricotti, Sam Koppelman (percussion); Mark Ronson (percussion); Chris Elliott (conductor, arranger); Gabriel Roth (arranger, engineer); Dominic Morley, Derek Pacuk, Matt Paul (engineer).
Producer:
Mark Ronson, Salaam Remi.
