Anywhere I Lay My Head: Scarlett Johansson meets Tom Waits
Anywhere I Lay Head es una colleccion que contiene 10 temas de Tom Waits y un original cut ["Song For Jo"] co-escrita por la actriz newyorkina Scarlett Johansson. El productor de este LP es nada más y nada menos que Dave Sitek, el mismo responsable del suceso sónico de TV On The Radio. Por si no fuera poco, y porque ella puede, también cuenta con invitados especiales: David Bowie y el simpático guitarrista de los Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Zinner.
Si quieres comprarte este ¿capricho? de la rubia actriz, tendrás que esperar hasta el 20 de mayo. Pero como sabemo que tratándose de ella, tienes ganas de más, reproducimos una porción, un poquito no más, de la entrevista que le hizo Pitchfork sobre esta nueva aventura:
::pitchfork: There are a lot of relatively high-profile guests here, from Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner to David Bowie.
::scarlett.j: Dave kind of pulled out all the stops in terms of “Who can we get together that would just be, like, this unbelievable wellspring of creativity?” It became this fantasy band, in a way, for me. These are all members of other bands that I love. Dave and I both thought of this as our pet project, we wanted everything to be ideal. We were in such a remote part of Louisiana. And with everyone getting together and wanting to be there, just purely out of love for Tom Waits and the love of music– the fact that we had all these seemingly endless possibilities was really attractive to all the guys in the band. And Dave is such a wizard, he’s such a warm and welcoming energy, I think he just attracts goodness.
Ah, también le preguntaron cómo llegaron a escoger estas 10 canciones de Tom Waits:
::pitchfork: How did you choose these 10 songs? They’re not necessarily the most obvious choices– some of them are fairly aggressive.
::scarlett.j: [We picked them] in different ways. There were some songs that I always knew that I wanted to do, like “I Wish I Was in New Orleans” and “Green Grass” and “Town with No Cheer”. Basically, I came with a list of 20 songs or that I wanted to try, to see what people thought. They were songs I felt comfortable taking a crack at. There are certain songs I wouldn’t try, like “Waltzing Matilda”. I don’t know, his original is so– I can’t imagine it any other way than the way. But other songs, like “Green Grass”, I’d sing it to myself and I kind of got that obsessive love: You know, you’re gonna love me no matter what. I felt like I could give it an interesting voice, especially coming from a young, female perspective. I thought it was appropriate in a certain way.
Other songs didn’t work, I’d try to get to the essence of the song, to figure out what is it about this song that attracts me to it. And it would be the original, the way that it is, it’s just perfect the way that it is. Not to say that all of these songs aren’t perfect the way that they are, they certainly are. It’s just that I couldn’t imagine them any other way.
El tracklist de Anywhere I Lay My Head es éste:
01_fawn
02_town.with.no.cheer
03_falling.down
04_anywhere.lay.my.head
05_fannin’.street
06_song.for.jo
07_green.grass
08_i.wish.i.was.in.new.orleans
09_i.don’t.want.to.grow.up
10_no.one.knows.i’m.gone
11_who.are.you?
::anywhere.she.writes.a.post_ivonne.flores
::falling.down
::2008::, ::videos:: | El Manza May 13, 2008 | 
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