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Thanks to Meghan C
and Jennifer Ford for this article, which you can also find
online at travelandleisure.com.
Just Back
From Montana: Tori Amos
OCCUPATION
Singer-songwriter
HOME BASE Cornwall, England
ON THE ROAD Amos
recently crisscrossed America for three months, visiting all 50
states (including her home state of North Carolina); her favorite
stop was Montana. "She's a big-bottomed gal," Amos says of
Big Sky country. "She's a brick house--you're protected when
you're there." (Sometimes too protected: "Once I got locked
into my hotel room," Amos says with a laugh. "I had to rip
the towel rack off the wall and bang on the door for
thirty-&Mac222;ve minutes to get out.")
MAP OF THE WORLD The
cowboys, college kids, and even a belly dancer Amos met on her road
trip found their way into her eighth album, Scarlet's Walk (Epic), in
which the countryside has as much personality as the larger-than-life
characters she encounters. "You may only go to a town once in
your life, but something there takes a piece of you, and you take a
piece of it. You get a relationship with a place; it's personal,
between you and her."
FREEWHEELING Give
Amos a set of wheels and a stretch of open highway, and she's
euphoric (one song follows Scarlet, the album's narrator, up the
California coast; it's one of Amos's favorite drives). "I'm such
a road dog. It's freedom. And being a singer is a good excuse for
always being out on it." --Heidi Sherman Mitchell
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