Lest you think Amy Winehouse deserves to be reduced to some cultural joke. Listen. Just listen. No YouTube on this one.

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I can't remember when I first wrote about Amy Winehouse, suffice it to say it was back on another blog in another time. I was moved by the voice - still am.