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Tori Amos: Piece By Piece
Tori Amos - Book - by Tori Amos and Ann Powers
(2022)
From her critically acclaimed 1992 debut, Little Earthquakes, to the recent hit, Scarlet’s Walk, Tori Amos has been a formidable force in contemporary music, with one of the most dedicated fan bases in the industry. In Tori Amos: Piece by Piece,
the singer herself takes readers beyond the mere facts, explaining the
specifics of her creative process—how her songs go from ideas and
melodies to recordings and passionately performed concert pieces.
Written with acclaimed music journalist Ann Powers, Tori Amos: Piece by Piece
is a firsthand account of the most intricate and intimate details of
Amos’s life as both a private individual and a very public performing
musician. In passionate and informative prose, Amos explains how her
songs come to her and how she records and then performs them for
audiences everywhere, all the while connecting with listeners across the
world and maintaining her own family life (which includes raising a
young daughter). But it is also much more, a verbal collage made by two
strong female voices—and the voices of those closest to Amos—that calls
upon genealogy, myth, and folklore to express Amos’s unique and
fascinating personal history. In short, we see the pieces that make
up—as Amos herself puts it—“the woman we call Tori.”
With photos taken especially for this book by the photographer Loren Haynes, Tori Amos: Piece by Piece is a rare treat for both Tori listeners and newcomers alike, a look into the heart and mind of an extraordinary musician.