News: Legs & Boots Kick Back ... Overseas!

In a somewhat unexpected newsletter from the old Sony/Epic Tori Amos mailing list that appeared today, buried between the news about tonight’s signing at Amoeba and Wednesday’s Meebo chat, was the even more unexpected announcement that all twenty-seven Legs & Boots, the official live recordings from the North American leg of 2007’s American Doll Posse tour, will be available on iTunes in the United States tomorrow, July 22nd.

Other purveyors of digital music downloads will follow suit on August 5th, including iTunes outside of the States. While they do not specify which non-American iTunes stores will have the be included, it’s encouraging to see that they heard the voices of those outside of Canada and the States clamoring for a legal way to obtain these recordings and we’ll see, come early August, where the Legs & Boots become available.

UPDATE

A loyal reader reports that each of the concerts is priced at $13.99. As they are released by Sony, they are lower bitrate, DRMed files. Except for the performance of “Code Red” in San Diego, each song can be purchased individually (to get that “Code Red,” you need to buy the entire concert).

According to this week’s iTunes New Music Tuesday newsletter there are only 26 concerts available:

Tori Amos’ fan base is well-known for being among the most dedicated of any artist, and the veteran singer/songwriter is letting her fans take the memories home with Boots and Legs, an exclusive live bootleg series available exclusively on iTunes. With 26 live concerts from the past year available today, the Boots and Legs series lets you have more Amos than you could dream of.

And sure enough, another loyal reader reports that the West Palm Beach recording is not available on iTunes. We haven’t heard any reason for this unfortunate omission. The West Palm Beach show is now on iTunes!