Today is another bitter sweet day in music. Song stylist the late Amy Winehouse has a new 12 song CD, and it just reminds us of how big her instrument and talent was, unfortunately her demons were greater than her following. Listening to Amy's vocals always haunted me, and today more so, because I now have an ideal of why she was able to deeply touch my soul, her pain was VISIBLE at all times.
The posthumous release is incomplete which is all the more befitting, because that was of Amy's life. The song selections shines light into the trouble singers demons, but on every note, the vocals are in place and ready to make you sit up and pay attention because that's the stuff that great artists deliver no matter how bad their soul burns.
The question always arises, with artistry and brilliance, is it too overwhelming for the leaders of the pack, the Jimi's, Kurt Cobain's, Janis Joplin's, Donny Hathaway's,Billie Holiday's, Phyllis Hyman's, Cass Elliott's just to name a few, who all appeared to be years ahead of their time. Questions like these, will continue to come up .... hopefully the new breed of talent coming after will have a stronger foundation and support group. Strangely enough, people do cry out, maybe we could all do a better job at paying attention. I'll end this by saying Amy Winehouse I appreciate your place in music and you life wasn't in vain.
thanks for the post Kev' you're informative as always. I didn't realize that Amy had new music released. Still such a sad day in music her passsing, hopefully she's at peace.
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