In May, while on vacationing in Maine, we caught an episode of Jimmy Fallon with The Black Keys. I loved their sound, made a note in my notebook and proceeded to forget about it. That is of course until about 2 weeks ago and I decided I needed some new music to listen to. This may be one of my favorite albums of 2010, and the last few years. I love the soulful blues rock combination. I bought their current album Brothers and will be going back to buy previous albums.

I introduced my sister-in-law to their music over Thanksgiving, she too fell in love with it. Then shared with me their video for Tighten Up (above), it’s fun to watch, if you don’t laugh you might need to pinch yourself.

The guys over at Film Riot put together this hysterical music video to demonstrate how to create a snowy scene, when you don’t have snow. To see how they made the snow, watch the latest episode.

This guy’s voice range is amazing!

We just got the 2009 Season brochure from the Tanglewood Music Center. Last year we never made it up, but the year prior we spent quite a bit of time up there. If you live in the area, I highly recommend getting tickets and spending the day or weekend up there.

Tangelwood is the summer home for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and some main stream artists as well.

This year this is what we’re looking forward to:

July 4th – Diana Krall
July 21st – Tony Bennett
August 7th – Chris Botti and the Boston Pops Orchestra
August 28th – James Taylor with Sheryl Crow and Yo-Yo Ma

The grounds at Tanglewood are incredibly relaxing and allow for strolls while hearing music playing all around you. I’ve never seen a more well behaved crowd of people.

When I was growing up (right until my Dad passed away) on evenings when there was nothing he wanted to watch on TV, he’d pull out a CD or record. We’d sit on the couch and just listen to the music fill the house. The music choices for the evening fell into 3 categories; classical, electronic/new age and old country or bluegrass.

Craig and I have decided to re-start this tradition. We imported all of my Dad’s new age collection along with most of the classical. Instead of watching TV until the wee hours, we’re relaxing to this wonderful music and reading.