B Sides

Mary (Radio Edit) 4:04
Mary (Album Version) 4:40

Notes

This release was essentially a "greatest hits" catalogue but Tori had remixed many of the songs and the album included two previously unreleased items.

Again she released the album in two versions, one was simply the cd and the limited edition contained a dvd that included:

. Pretty Good Year
Northern Lad
Honey
Putting the Damage On (instrumental)
Mr. Zebra (instrumental)

The dvd also contained a slideshow of pictures from throughour her career.

Tales Of a Librarian

Track Listing

Released:

November 14, 2003 (The Netherlands)
November 17, 2003 (UK/South Africa)
November 18, 2003 (US/Canada)
November 24, 2003 (Germany)
December 1, 2003 (Australia)

Comments

"It's a sonic autobiography. It came about after some friends and I were discussing how we would have loved to have had a female account of Rome's final days, from the fall of the Roman empire 2000 years ago. I'd really like to have heard what a female songwriter might have written if they'd chronicled that time, that society, those people's thoughts from a woman's point of view.

"I started thinking, well, I could do that, as an American woman during a time when many feel America has passed its zenith and fallen so low that those who challenge our political leaders are being vilified as betrayers of our country. And so I chose songs that go back to her as an infant, born in the year JFK was shot, the daughter of a minister and a part-Cherokee woman, and followed her life from there."

Sunday Star-Times - November 23, 2003

Musicians

Tori Amos, Matt Chamberlain, Jon Evans...