Wednesday, April 23, 2008

She's no Tom Waits...

Let me preface this by saying that I LOVE Tom Waits. Hell, his Postcard From a Hooker in Minneapolis closed my Johnnyk has the blues this Christmas CD in 2001. I also love Scarlett Johansson, so I was pretty psyched to hear that she was doing an album of Tom Waits covers. It's been quite awhile in the making, but it will be released in May. A couple cuts have made their way online and I am, while not crushed, disappointed. Oh well, why did I think she was going to be great just because she has great taste? Here is the ORIGINAL in 1976 performing Warm Beer and Cold Women, a torch song written "primarily for piano and fire extinguisher."

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