King's Americana Revisted

You may remember that I mentioned an article in Entertainment Weekly a few months back about Stephen King's Americana leanings. If you don't remember, here's the link. Go ahead and read it...I'll wait...

Back? Ok, great!. So it appears that His Creepiness is at it once again. This time he's using his column in Entertainment Weekly to list off his musical top 10 for the year. I'm happy to report that he includes some really good stuff. Tied for the number 10 position is Hank III's "My Drinkin' Problem" and Scott Miller's "Drunk All Around This Town". What's really interesting with this choice is that the Scott Miller tune he listed is an unreleased song. To my knowledge, the only place you can find it is in the live music archive at Archive.org. Nevertheless, mega-kudos to King for having come across this one. I hope now that Scott will put the song on his next album. Also making an appearance on the list are Johnny Cash, the Bottle Rockets and the Derailers.

In other Hollywood-meets-Americana news, here's one that even Stephen King couldn't have dreamed up. It appears that Hollywood It-Girl Scarlett Johansson will be recording an album in the near future. Except, instead of an album full of trite and forgettable pop fluff, she'll be tackling the work of Tom Waits. She's actually recording an ENTIRE ALBUM of Tom Waits material. I know, it sounds like story ripped straight from The Onion. I'm a fairly new fan of Waits' material, so I actually look forward to hearing how this turns out.