For me, when I’m home making dinner I’m usually doing one of two things. Either I’m watching The View (don’t judge) OR I’m listening to music. Often there’s nothing better than making dinner while bopping around to some tunes and drinking a glass of wine while wearing my favourite sweatpants. Seriously, pure joy. I figured since music is such a part of my cooking it would be fun to add a music feature to the blog where I write about some of my favourite cooking tunes. My music love is all over the place. I listen to everything from 50s/60s girl groups to Jay-Z to Spice Girls to Stevie Wonder.
One of my favourite CDs period is Amy Winehouse’s . There’s a really great soul/old school feel to the entire CD and most of the songs don’t get old. Sure, I tend to skip over the hit “Rehab” because for a while there it was EVERYWHERE but some songs like “Me and Mr. Jones” get me going every time. It’s also a great CD to sing along to and by sing I mean belt. Something about the song “Back to Black” always makes me sing along.
In terms of music to move to “Just Friends” has a really great reggae beat to it which gets the waist moving and “Tears Dry On Their Own” is totally a song to bop to.
If you can order the Deluxe Edition of Back to Black. On the Deluxe Edition Winehouse covers some old school songs like “Valerie” and “Cupid” with total ease. I particularly enjoy the Mark Ronson mix to “Valerie” (not on the Deluxe Edition) for it’s dance-enducing properties.
The only sad thing about Amy Winehouse is that I’m not quite sure how much longer she’ll be around and making music. Ever since she released Back to Black she’s been on a downward spiral with her drinking and drug abuse. Fingers crossed that one day she has an epiphany and turns her life around because she’s an artist that I can really see being around for years making some timeless music. We’ll see how that turns out, in the meantime enjoy what she has put out thus far.
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