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This article, which appeared in the Charlotte Observer yesterday as an advertisement for Tori Amos’ upcoming show, is perhaps the shortest but still quite personal and interesting Tori interview I’ve read in a while.

The interviewer, Courtney Devores, poses five questions to Tori which Tori either answered briefly (although, that is not her style) or were edited to fit the constraints of the page. The topic du jour was, obviously, Tori’s North Carolina roots. Tori will be “coming home” to play Charlotte on November 13, 2007.

Tori was asked how much time she spent in North Cackalacky when she was growing up, to which she responded every Christmas, Easter, and all summer long. She commented that she would spend hours on the porch listening to her Cherokee grandfather (whom we all know as “Papa”) telling stories while he smoked his pipe. She admits to the interviewer that she knows she would have been a musician, but she doubts she would have been a songwriter if it wouldn’t have been for her grandfather’s stories.

Does she still have family there? Tori said yep, a bunch of cousins who usually come to visit her more than she visits them. Tori also answered that her brother had ended up moving back there prior to his untimely death. He had felt drawn to N.C. to seek a sort of spiritual fulfillment.

When asked what she missed the most about growing up in the south, the Carolina’s in particular, she said she missed family meals, homemade biscuits, and all of her cousins. She feels imbued with a nurturing spirit when she reminisces about this part of her childhood.

Then the subject switches to Tash, who has become a big fan of the t.v. show “Charmed.” (For some reason, I am not surprised). The interviewer asked if this made Tori nervous and she said yeah, but that she wanted to pick her battles. “Tash can make her own judgment. I trust her.”

Lastly, Tori was asked a very unique question: What could Tash do to shock her? Tori, of course, said running off to become a right wing Christian. This is kind of a real concern, given that Tash goes to private school in England, which are all run by the Anglican church–attending service everyday in mandatory. But, Tori seems quite relieved that Tash has shown no interest in becoming any more involved in church beyond just sitting there in the pew, perhaps contemplating her math homework or how the music sucks.

I liked this article a great deal. I think of Tori in a number of ways, but being a Kentuckian I feel more drawn to her when I think of her as a Southerner. I wonder which doll will come out this night. I’m thinkin’ Izzy, but Clyde would make a good one too. Anyway, have a good time Charlotte concert goers…and there is a link on the article website to win tickets…so hurry on over!

Filed under: Press/Articles on November 9th, 2007