Midwinter Graces (Deluxe Edition)

After nearly two decades writing and recording some of her generations most emotionally powerful music, Tori Amos releases her first seasonal album, Midwinter Graces. A follow up to Tori's critically acclaimed studio album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, Midwinter Graces finds Tori reworking and expanding on classic carols as well as developing some of her very own seasonal tracks. Midwinter Graces is an album that has been in the making for the past forty years. Raised in the Baltimore area under the watchful eye of her Methodist minister father, Tori grew up playing holiday carols at Sunday services and Christmas Day celebrations in her father's church. These were the songs that gave a young Tori her first taste of music, and now almost forty years later Tori gets her own chance to re-imagine classics like "What Child, Nowell" and "Star of Wonder." Tori also adds her own bittersweet bliss to the season with originally tracks like "Pink and Glitter" and "Our New Year." For Midwinter Graces, Amos has again teamed up with long time collaborators Matt Chamberlain on drums, Jon Evans on bass, and Mac Aladdin on guitars. Tori has also enlisted the help of a Big Band and an Orchestra with stunning John Philip Shenale arrangements.