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Scarlet’s Walk by Tori Amos
Scarlet’s Walk is an album by Tori Amos, released in 2002. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 23 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “A Sorta Fairytale”, on 17 lists with a best position of #13.
Scarlet's Walk, Tori Amos's seventh studio album and her first for Epic after she parted ways with Atlantic, came out in 2002, and it's a road record in every sense. Across 18 tracks she trails Scarlet, a woman loosely modeled on Amos herself, as she crosses an uneasy America in the wake of September 11, turning over nationalism, lovers and friendships, the death of someone close, and the country's long mistreatment of Native Americans, a thread she picked up from her grandfather's stories.
Amos produced it herself at Martian Engineering in Cornwall, with the band that would stay with her: Jon Evans on bass, Matt Chamberlain on drums, Mac Aladdin on guitar, plus string charts by John Philip Shenale. After the electronic, trip-hop murk of From the Choirgirl Hotel and To Venus and Back, this one breathes. The piano is back up front, with Wurlitzer and Fender Rhodes glowing warmly around it, and "A Sorta Fairytale", "Taxi Ride" and "Don't Make Me Come to Vegas" went out as the singles.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Scarlet’s Walk on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Sorta Fairytale | 17 | #13 | – | 2002–2025 | |
| 2 | Pancake | 6 | #1813 | – | 2007–2013 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.