New Musical Express
5/2/08
'just completely brilliant that will no doubt top 'best of 2008' lists'
The Guardian
4/5 stars. "it's a measure of this albums surprising allure that you are left wanting more"
Paste Magazine
My Five Dads by Jason Killingsworth
What Scarlett Johansson has learned from Tom Waits, Bill Murray, Woddy Allen, Bob Dylan and Barack Obama.
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Paste Magazine Review
Similar to Tom Wait's starring role as hard-luck DJ in Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law, Johansson's decision to make an album of Waits songs is a can't-lose proposition, a left-field creative exercise that's insulated from criticism because it's so free of vanity and opportunism.
Rolling Stone Magazine
Review
Frankly, we're pretty impressed by Scarlett Johansson's first real foray into music, Anywhere I Lay My Head, a collection of Tom Waits songs. After time-consuming attempts at finding a producer to help nail the sound she'd imagined, Johansson met her match in Dave Sitek, guitarist for TV on the Radio.
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Performing Songwriter
Review
Lay down your pitchforks: Actress Scarlett Johansson's cautiously anticipated album of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head, aint half bad. You're not the only one surprised. The idea of sexy young starlet tackling the “Cookie Monster from Hell” caterwauls of Waits' idiosyncratic catalog already has two strikes against it. However, inspired production from TV on the Radio's David Sitek and Johansson's smoky alto ensure Waits' essence isn't “lost in translation.” .
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Filter Magazine
Review
The music of Tom Waits has always been about capturing those little things that make us uniquely, if not tragically, human -- all those frailties and conveying them through simple artistic gestures. So, while normally one shudders when another actress desultorily christens herself a singer, Ms. Johansson's decision to record a collection of Waits' songs was rife with possibility from its inception.
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Spin Magazine
Article
Onscreen, Scarlett Johansson has beguiled Bill Murray, Christan Bale, Ewan McGregor, and... Woody Allen. Offscreen she's been the face of L'oreal and Louis Vuitton. So given this A-lister's tony image, it came as a bit of a surprise that her debut disc would be a collection of obscurities by the ever-rumpled Tom Waits (plus one original).
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