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[fiona_mcquarrie@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca]

Re the (possible) re-release on Y Kant Tori Read:
Don't count on it. Two cases in point: 
Chris Whitley, who currently has a terrific record called Living With the
Law (a song from which is on the Thelma and Louise soundtrack), used to
play and live in Europe a few years ago. The band he was in recorded a
funk/disco type album. When Living with the Law became a hit (and it is
in a *very* different style), apparently his record company bought the
master tapes of the previous record and burned them.
Gowan, who some of you might know, had one record in Canada as "Larry
Gowan", sort of quasi-Springsteen for lack of a better description. Then
he went to England and recorded with Genesis' producer and some of
Genesis'/Peter Gabriel's musicians, became a prog-rocker, and had two
big albums. Only when his album sales started to decline a bit did 
his record company re-release the first record, more as a curiosity than
anything else.
Record companies are very big on image and control. As long as Tori Amos
is popular as a Kate Bush-type singer-songwriter, anything she did as 
a hard rock hairspray queen will sit on the studio shelves for a while
longer.
Fiona McQuarrie