Amy Winehouse at the BBC
Live and session recordings from BBC broadcasts, with two covers not released before.
Amy Winehouse, 2012
- Released
- November 2012
- Recorded
- 2004 to 2009
- Label
- Island Records
- Type
- live
A posthumous live album of songs she performed on BBC programmes between 2004 and 2009, issued in November 2012 in aid of the Amy Winehouse Foundation. A deluxe box set followed on 19 November 2012 with three DVDs: the Arena film The Day She Came to Dingle, A Tribute to Amy Winehouse by Jools Holland, and BBC One Sessions Live at Porchester Hall. The set was reissued on 7 May 2021 with the Jools Holland tribute and the Porchester Hall sessions added in audio form.
Douglas Wolk of Pitchfork counted 48 minutes of tracks from on-stage and studio broadcasts, including two titles she had not released before, the standards I Should Care and Lullaby of Birdland. The songs are ordered by album, not by date, so all of Frank comes before Back to Black. Only two tracks, Just Friends and Love Is a Losing Game, both from 2009, date from her last years. Wolk judged the most effective performances to be the quietest ones, on the DVD, where she played a 22-minute set in a small Irish church with a guitarist and a bassist. Metacritic gives the album an average of 64.
Track listing
- Know You Now3:55
- Fuck Me Pumps3:42
- In My Bed4:38
- October Song3:42
- Rehab3:58
- You Know I'm No Good3:27
- Just Friends3:17
- Love Is a Losing Game2:50
- Tears Dry on Their Own3:11
- Best Friends, Right?3:04
- I Should Care3:39
- Lullaby of Birdland2:35
- Valerie3:51
- To Know Him Is to Love Him2:34
More from Amy Winehouse
Frank (2003), Back to Black (2006), Lioness: Hidden Treasures (2011)
Sources
- Amy Winehouse at the BBC, Wikipedia
- Amy Winehouse: At the BBC, Pitchfork (2012-12-11)