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..MIDWINTER GRACES ../DETAILS Format: CD and Deluxe edition CD/DVD Released: November 2009 Recorded: 2009 ^ top ../LINER NOTES N/A ^ top ../MUSICIANS Tori Amos - vocals, Bosendorfer, harpsichord Mac Aladdin - guitar ^ top ../QUOTES “The shock is that there’s nothing shocking. It’s not a typical kind of seasonal record, where you’re just playing covers of old songs. It's about reworking them.When these songs came to America, a lot of the lyrics to old carols would get changed here and there. Some of them were taken from old pagan songs. So it’s really about finding the best bits and building on them from there. There are also some original compositions. There are tubular bells, concert bass drums, timpani, harpsichord, piano, full strings full brass. Yet it’s all surprisingly straightforward. There’s no, ‘She’s a Hussy, Merry Christmas’ on it, not this time. So you can listen to it from top to tail without thinking 'oh my god my mother's in the room, I have to skip this one!'” "I wrote a lot of the record at my beach house in Florida, in 100 degrees heat. I had seen (label executive) Doug Morris, who said to me: 'I'm 70-years-old, Tori, I want you to do a seasonal record, you're a minister's daughter. Just don't make it overly religious.' I said that happens naturally and he said 'don't offend your mother, but don't offend me either'. My parents had always wanted me to do a seasonal record, but they wanted it to be true to all the hymns that they hold dear. But that didn't interest me. The good thing is that they have embraced the record and it hasn't offended them. I didn't make this to offend them. I wanted to widen up the ideology, so it wasn't just for Christian believers but for people that may be spiritual in some way." ^ top ../FACT The angel in the Midwinter Graces promotional photos is said to be Tori's nephew. All the covered songs are reworked, some of them being medleys, and all contain new lyrics from Tori. Six out of the 15 songs are originals written by Tori. ^ top ../SINGLES N/A ^ top ../VIDEOS N/A ^ top ../PHOTOS 
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