Editing Scarlet's Walk (section)

==Background==

''Scarlet's Walk'' was the follow-up to Amos' previous album ''[[Strange Little Girls]]'', which was released in 2001 and fulfilled her contract with [[Atlantic Records]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Amos |first1=Tori |last2=Powers |first2=Ann |author-link2=Ann Powers |title=Tori Amos: Piece by Piece |year=2005 |publisher=Broadway Books |isbn=978-0-7679-1677-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LE3VkMtdSkC |pages=314–15}}</ref> A primary motivation for Amos' switch from Atlantic to Epic was the presence of [[Polly Anthony]], the president of Epic, whom Amos felt would be committed to properly promoting her work as she had felt that Atlantic had not promoted her recent releases to the proper extent and had felt trapped in her contract due to the label's refusal to sell her to another label. Amos would later experience further frustrations as Anthony stepped down from her position after the release of ''Scarlet's Walk'' in 2003.{{cn|date=April 2023}}

In addition to cementing her longest-running backing lineup, guitar contributions were also made by [[David Torn]] and [[Robbie McIntosh]]. It would become Amos' fourth consecutive release to be primarily recorded at her studio, Martian Engineering in [[Cornwall, England]]. Production was handled by Amos (as has been the case for all her albums since ''[[Boys for Pele]]''), and the album was mixed by her husband Mark Hawley and Marcel van Limbeek.