{"id":1569,"date":"2012-05-07T14:29:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T20:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2018-02-08T20:52:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T02:52:35","slug":"record-of-the-issue-nature-humphries-from-tlv-155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/record-of-the-issue-nature-humphries-from-tlv-155\/","title":{"rendered":"Record of the Issue: Amy Winehouse&#8217;s Lioness (from TLV #155)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1117\" title=\"Column Header Side Record Of The Issue\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ColumnHeaderSide-RecordOfTheIssue.jpg?resize=196%2C210\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ColumnHeaderSide-RecordOfTheIssue.jpg?w=326&amp;ssl=1 326w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ColumnHeaderSide-RecordOfTheIssue.jpg?resize=279%2C300&amp;ssl=1 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>I know it may not be \u201ccool\u201d to be an <strong>Amy Winehouse<\/strong> fan, but when I saw the double-LP <em>Lioness: Hidden Treasures<\/em>, I knew I needed this album. Honestly, I&#8217;d never even listened to Winehouse before her tragic death. Sure, I\u2019d seen the scandalous TMZ photos and heard the celebre-gossip, but I just never took the time to hear what the hype was all about. After her much-publicized demise, I added a station to my Pandora channel, just for kicks. And I was blown away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Amy-Winehouse-Lioness-Hidden-Treasures\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Amy-Winehouse-Lioness-Hidden-Treasures.jpg?resize=168%2C168\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"168\" \/>First of all, I cannot resist a sexy, slurry, and soulful female voice. Her lyrics remind me of, well&#8230;me. And maybe that\u2019s clich\u00e9 or na\u00efve, but when you find something that opens your ears, I say let it in!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This album is comprised of unreleased songs, including my favorite, \u201cBest Friends, Right?\u201d as well as killer covers of \u201cWill You Still Love Me Tomorrow?\u201d and \u201cThe Girl From Ipanema.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em> sums it up for me: \u201cWinehouse\u2019s singing is both raggedy and dramatic, winking and insouciant, full of high drama and a breezy sense of play\u2014sometimes all those things at the same time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"The Local Voice #155\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/TLV-cover-155-300.jpg?resize=240%2C134\" alt=\"The Local Voice #155\" width=\"240\" height=\"134\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><br \/>\nThis article was published in <em>The Local Voice<\/em> #155 (May 3-19, 2012)&#8230;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/LocalVoice-PDFs\/TLV-155-web.pdf\"><strong>Click here to download the PDF of issue #155.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it may not be \u201ccool\u201d to be an Amy Winehouse fan, but when I saw the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}