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DC singer Sarah Robinson sings the song with no ornamentation, just her voice and a few spare ukulele chords. Given the lush production Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi gave Back to Black, it can be refreshing to hear how well the songs work stripped down this far. For a mish-mash of artists, the covers are surprisingly effective across the board, giving us wonderful renditions of rarely-covered songs like this one. When Winehouse died, the UK music magazine Q contacted their favorite artists to compile their own full-album tribute, titled Back to Back to Black. A lot of times at these BBC Radio 1 “Live Lounge” cover sessions you see the singer reciting from a lyric sheet, not having practiced the song much. What puts this above your typical rock-cover-of-pop-radio-hit genre exercise is Alex Turner’s committed vocals. Since we passed over Hot Hot Heat, we’ll pick Arctic Monkeys’ similarly rocking approach on another oft-covered song. In addition to being a brand of breath mint, mento is a Jamaican folk tradition that predates reggae, making it only a couple degrees removed from Amy herself. Should we go with Hot Hot Heat’s angular post-punk? Pablo Nutini’s emotive folk-rock? The Ping Pong Orchestra’s organ and flute groove? All worth seeking out, but perhaps the most unusual is this mento cover by the Jolly Boys. Many covers to choose from for this song, needless to say.
So with the eleven songs below, we remember Amy just as those musicians all did: through the music. And she in turn has passed her influence forwards, with tributes from acolytes like Sam Smith (who’s covered two songs) and Adele (who hasn’t, but has spoken about how much Amy’s music meant to her). We didn’t include them all – in general, we avoided covers that didn’t stray too far from their original soul templates – but they serve as a tribute to how ably she incorporated her influences. People like Prince, Wanda Jackson, and even Ronnie Spector have all covered her songs over the years. One theme that emerges is how many of her influences turned into her fans. Though as is always the case the big hits have way more covers than the deep cuts, it’s a testament to how deep the album’s bench is that every song has been given at least one cover worthy of Amy’s talent.
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We, however, are all about the music, which we celebrate today with the latest in our series of Full Album cover sets. But still, if it gets some young Adele fan who wasn’t around for Adele’s predecessor to give Back to Black a listen, another exhaustive look at Winehouse’s demons was perhaps worth it. The movie, as is typical for these things, is more about the personality than the music producers seem to think public breakdowns make for better visuals than the nitty gritty of work in the studio (a premise with which we strongly disagree).
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Last night, to the surprise of no one, that Academy Award for Best Documentary went to the Amy Winehouse movie Amy.
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