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Album: AMY WINEHOUSE-AMY WINEHOUSE:BACK TO BLACK
# Song Title   Time
1)    Rehab Album Version More Info... 3:34
2)    You Know I'm No Good More Info... 4:17
3)    Me & Mr Jones More Info... 2:32
4)    Just Friends More Info... 3:12
5)    Back To Black More Info... 4:00
6)    Love Is A Losing Game More Info... 2:34
7)    Tears Dry On Their Own More Info... 3:05
8)    Wake Up Alone More Info... 3:41
9)    Some Unholy War More Info... 2:21
10)    He Can Only Hold Her More Info... 2:49
 
Album: AMY WINEHOUSE-AMY WINEHOUSE:BACK TO BLACK
# Song Title   Time
1)    Rehab Album Version More Info... 3:34
2)    You Know I'm No Good More Info... 4:17
3)    Me & Mr Jones More Info... 2:32
4)    Just Friends More Info... 3:12
5)    Back To Black More Info... 4:00
6)    Love Is A Losing Game More Info... 2:34
7)    Tears Dry On Their Own More Info... 3:05
8)    Wake Up Alone More Info... 3:41
9)    Some Unholy War More Info... 2:21
10)    He Can Only Hold Her More Info... 2:49
 
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Performer Notes
  • Personnel: Amy Winehouse (guitar, background vocals); Vincent Henry (guitar, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, piano, celesta); Salaam Remi (guitar, piano, upright bass, drums); Binky Griptite (guitar); Steve Sidwell (harp, trumpet); Helen Tunstall (harp); Perry Mason, Warren Zielinski, Liz Edwards, Mark Berrow, Tom Pigott-Smith, Christopher Tombling, Peter G. Hanson, Boguslav Kostecki, Everton Nelson, Johnathan Rees (violin); Katie Wilkinson Khoroshunin, Jon Thorne , Rachel Bolt, Bruce White (viola); John Heley, Joely Koos, Anthony Pleeth (cello); Andrew MacKintosh, Chris Davies (alto saxophone); Jamie Talbot, Neal Sugarman (tenor saxophone); Cochemea Gastelum, Dave Bishop (baritone saxophone); Bruce Purse (trumpet, bass trumpet, flugelhorn); Victor Axelrod (piano, Wurlitzer organ, hand claps); Nick Movshon (bass guitar); Homer Steinweiss (drums); Mark Ronson (tambourine, hand claps); Vaughan Merrick (hand claps); Sam Koppelman, Frank Ricotti (percussion).
  • Audio Mixer: Tom Elmhirst.
  • Recording information: Allido Studios; Chung King Studios; Daptone Studios; Instrument Zoo, Miami, FL; metropolis Studios, London, England; Rapking Studios.
  • Photographer: Harry "Rockbarry" Benson.
  • Arrangers: Gabriel Roth; Mark Ronson.
  • It doesn't take much listening to Amy Winehouse's 1960s pop period piece to realize that this is a tribute with an edge--nice girls back then didn't sing about boozing and rehab. Since her 2003 debut album, FRANK, Winehouse has been a frequent presence on the gossip pages of the U.K. tabloids, and her songwriting here candidly reflects her experiences with drinking, sex, and drugs.
  • BACK TO BLACK's production is an artful blend of sophisticated '60s R&B and 21st-century stylistic poaching, with "Tears Dry on Their Own" incorporating elements of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," and Winehouse sounding like Billie Holiday fronting a reggae band on the old-fashioned cheating song "Just Friends." Densely packed with musical history and often conjuring a dark, Portishead-esque atmosphere, BACK TO BLACK is a sumptuous-sounding collection freighted with blunt confessionals of a lush life.
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (p.76) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Winehouse is a nervy, witty songstress whom indie rockers, pop fans and hip-hoppers can dig."

Rolling Stone (p.115) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Top Albums of the Year 2007" -- "[W]ith a brassy, intensely personal sorrow that is true blues, not nouveau soul."

Spin (p.79) - "[A] breakthrough, producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson surround her with brass sections, string sections, harp, Wurlitzer, the works."

Entertainment Weekly (p.67) - "It's precisely Winehouse's lyrics...aching, flirty, and often straight-up nasty -- that raise this expertly crafted set into the realm of true, of-the-minute originality." -- Grade: A-

Q (Magazine) (p.134) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Winehouse is one of the best things to have happened to British pop recently."
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