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Article: Scarlett Johansson / Anywhere I Lay My Head (Atco)
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- May 24, 2008
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Scarlett Johansson
Anywhere I Lay My Head (Atco)
Actor Scarlett Johansson ditches her husky speaking voice for Anywhere I Lay My Head, her full-length debut as a singer. The move, we assume, was done on purpose: Anywhere I Lay My Head features her take on 10 songs by Tom Waits, who is the gold standard when it comes to whisky-sour vocals. No sense trying to compete with that.
She tries in vain to deliver interesting vocals from song to song, but matches ...