More Personalities Mean More Tori to Love

Tori Amosis now on tour supporting her best CD in years. On American Doll Posse, Amos assumes the roles of a quartet of disparate women: indignant politico photographer Isabel, wounded soul-seeker Clyde, fierce rubber enthusiast Pip, and glitzy sensualist Santa. Together, they sing the album's 23 songs. In addition to Amos' solo piano performance and a set with her band, the two-and-a-half-hour show includes appearances by Posse's protagonists. She takes the stage dressed in character. But this really isn't groundbreaking territory for Amos, who, after her autobiographical 1992 debut, Little Earthquakes, began channeling different characters to sing her increasingly oblique songs. Read more about American Doll Posse in an interview with Amos here. — D.X. Ferris