South
The Wheel of the South: Faith and Trust, Elusiveness, Innocence, Physical and Personal Vulnerability, Strength, Protection, Relationships with others, with self. with nature, Renewal, Self-Healing, Stress, Love, Courage. Element: Fire From: Owl's Rest
Tori Says: "And we travel further into Little Amsterdam, we go down South, which is really symbolic for the primal, the primitive, and the lies and the... really the domination." ~ World Cafe (radio) 3-1-96
"I've set it [Little Amsterdam] between two release points, an intro and outro. It helps the smell of this song, so you really get the honeysuckle with the sweet potatoes and the black-eyed peas. And just like you weave down those roads in the South, you know, you're in swampland, and then you hit water, and then country, and sugar cane. And then you hit a gas station somewhere and you're in a town, and you've gotten into the Christian sound. It's like those writers I read as a little girl, Faulkner and Williams. This is how I write. It's not about sitting down and putting 18 bars here or there." ~ NY Times 1-14-96
Songs referenced:
Doughnut Song