Scarlett Johansson's Tom Waits tribute album due in May (nixes Courtney Love role)

[underpants]

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23211338-10388,00.html



SCARLETT Johansson is excited about her "magical" new album. The Match Point star - who worked with singer songwriter Tom Waits on the LP Anywhere I Lay My Head - revealed she enjoyed being "crazy" in the recording studio.
Scarlett told US TV show Access Hollywood: "My album comes out in May, which is exciting. It was a whole other magical experience for me. It was amazing. I worked with some incredible people and was just able to work, do something completely different.

"I recorded in a very remote area and just have free reign to be crazy crazy and that is so exciting."

Scarlett also revealed Waits was "very pleased" with her vocal talent.

She said: "Tom Waits's melodies are so beautiful and his voice is so distinct. I sent him some of my early, early recordings, and he said, 'Go ahead.' I've heard he's very pleased."

Anywhere I Lay My Head features 10 covers of Waits's songs and one original tune, Song for Jo.

David Bowie and Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner also worked on the record.

Meanwhile, Scarlett has ruled herself out of playing Courtney Love in a new biopic of late Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain's life.

She added: "I have not seen a script. I read that about myself in a gossip magazine, but I never read a script or anything. I don't know."

[Donk Yore]

1. I used to love Scarlett J, but

she left me while I was in transition, and I couldn't forgive her.

[Orsino]

2. Tom Waits's melodies are so beautiful and his voice is so distinct."

:rofl:

Yeah, that statement wouldn't make so much sense the other way around! Tom's my man, but very few people would use the word "beautiful" to describe his voice.

[Swede]

3. His voice is perfect for his songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLA6AiZlVw

[Orsino]

5. An acquired taste, but yeah, I wouldn't argue with the word "perfect."

Beautiful in its own way.

[peekaloo]

4. Wot? No 'Pasties and a G-String'?

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