…features four never-before-heard demos alongside rare B-sides, alternate studio takes, and a previously unreleased live set recorded on the Back to Black tour in Amsterdam in 2007.
…While U.K. native Winehouse’s 2003 debut Frank made overtures to establish her as a unique new talent – her combination of vintage jazz/soul styles with raw, honest lyricism won the album an Ivor Novello Award – it was Back to Black that made her a superstar. Working with one of Frank‘s primary producers, Salaam Remi (best known at the time for producing the Fugees’ “Fu-Gee-La”), as well as Mark Ronson (a wunderkind New York DJ and stepson of Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones), Winehouse’s songs became even more confessional and grimily indebted to…

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