July 5, 2012

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Mitch Winehouse has revealed that there are plans to release two more posthumous albums by Amy Winehouse.

In an interview with BBC 6 Music, the late singer's father said that there was more unreleased material which wasn't used on last year's Lioness: Hidden Treasures collection, but insisted he didn’t want to disappoint his daughter's fans by releasing "dross".

Mitch, who released his memoir Amy, My Daughter last month (June 28), said of the unheard songs: ''I'm not sure that there is much more but I'm sure that we will get at least one other album out, if not two. There are loads of covers, loads of them, but the problem is we don't want want to rip anybody off. When her fans are so precious to us we don’t want to put out dross.''

Earlier this week , Winehouse's posthumous duet with rapper Nas appeared online. The track, which is titled ''Cherry Wine'', will feature on the hip-hop star’s new album.

Winehouse's first posthumous release, 'Lioness: Hidden Treasures', proved to be immensely popular with her fans: the album entered the charts at number one in December last year in England.

I'm not sure I like this.

From reviews I read, Lioness wasn't immensely popular, even with fans, but I loved it, so I'm really excited for new music. I love hearing her do covers, so if that's all there is, I'm fine with that.

Has it officially been a year since she passed?

She died July 23, 2011..

Wow, time flies

so what about the album she was working on up until she died? was that lioness? from what

i gathered at the time of it's release, it wasn't that album. i haven't even checked it out just

beyond listening to clips of it.

I'm down with covers. I'm not down with shit that sounds like a sketch of an idea, or a quick demo run-through, that has been posthumously produced and passed off as an actual song. There's a few on Lioness that really should have been left on the cutting room floor.

I think Lioness was what she had been working on

scriptgirl said:

I think Lioness was what she had been working on

Nah, there are things on there that date back to 2002. IIRC, the most recent thing on there was from 2008?

IstenSzek said:

so what about the album she was working on up until she died? was that lioness? from what

i gathered at the time of it's release, it wasn't that album. i haven't even checked it out just

beyond listening to clips of it.

There was a news story last year that there's a dozen songs that her record label owns, and they won't let them be released. They say Amy didn't want them released, and I'm guessing that stuff is what would've been on her next album.

A lot of tracks have leaked, though, and are all over YouTube. Some of them are really good, so I definitely think the next album could be great.

First, just wanna say I'm delighted to get ANY posthumous stuff from Amy.

IstenSzek said:

so what about the album she was working on up until she died? was that lioness? from what

i gathered at the time of it's release, it wasn't that album. i haven't even checked it out just

beyond listening to clips of it.

Naw, Lioness was a project slapped together at the last minute by Salaam Remi with some participation from Mark Ronson.

The liner notes for Lioness show a handwritten track list of song titles intended to be the third LP. Included on the list are "Between the Cheats" and "Like Smoke" which were both released on Lioness in as-official-as-it-can-get form.

I'm assuming what he means these 2 albums will be will be a lot of the older material. Amy recorded a fuckload of music the years after she was signed, including many many covers. This is where songs like "Our Day Will Come" and "Moody's Mood For Love" and "Teach Me Tonight" (studio) tracks come from. I also assume that Amy recorded a decent amount during her time in the Caribbean. I know that the third album had several completed sessions done, but I don't think the material was considered final cut.

huge fan of Amy but didnt like 'Lioness'

I'm so glad they reworked 'Tears dry on their own' - The demo version was forgettable.