Amy Winehouse Says New Album Due In January

Lock up your…. well, lock up everybody. And all you headline writers be prepared. A new Amy Winehouse album is due by January of next year, according to Billboard, which hopefully means we’ll get a suitable follow-up to 2006’s excellent Back to Black, but this time around without the wacky, mostly annoying behavior that accompanied her musical success.

The upcoming album, no title yet, will be the third for the Grammy award-winning singer.

“The album will be six months at the most,” Winehouse told Metro UK, while attending the premiere of the film Psychosis, directed by new boyfriend Reg Traviss.

“It’s going to be very much the same as my second album,” said Winehouse, “where there’s a lot of jukebox stuff and songs that are… just jukebox, really.”

No damn idea what she means by ‘ just jukebox,’ but I did like the second album, as did many music fans, so more of the same wouldn’t be a bad way to go for album number 3.

“I just can’t wait to have new songs on stage, really,” Winehouse added.

Winehouse was also happy to set the record straight about her botched performance with Mark Ronson last week at London’s 100 Club; if you recall, the singer appeared to forget the lyrics to the song “Valerie,” from Ronson’s Version covers album.

“Mark and I recorded two versions of ‘Valerie,’ ” she said. “We released the one that came out like the Supremes, but I play the other version with my band. When I got there, I completely forgot it was his version we were singing, so I was probably a bit out of sync. It was really fun to be onstage with him, though.”

Are you looking forward to new material from Amy Winehouse?