Edited sentence: In July 2009, it broke the Top 100 on the Americana Terrestrial Radio Charts.Players on the album include Steve Bowman (Counting Crows), Will Kimbrough (Rodney Crowell), Viktor Krauss (Lyle Lovett, Mindy Smith, Allison Krauss), Fats Kaplin (Mark Knopfler, Kevin Welch), and Barry Walsh (Gretchen Peters).She has played at festivals such as Bele Chere in Asheville, RedGorilla in Austin, Folk Alliance in Memphis, others.The Scorpion in the Story includes a French version of the song “Merry Go-Round,” (“Le Manege”), and was released on Glass Mountain Records in June 2009.The Scorpion in the Story is the first of Tori’s album to be called a “concept album.The album has been praised by Folkwax, IndyConcerts.The song “Tall Towers” from The Scorpion in the Story was featured on the Paste Magazine Music Sampler # 54 in July 2009, which also featured songs by Son Volt, Rhett Miller, and Dinosaur Jr.The video for “Merry Go-Round” was filmed with the participation of the National Carousel Association and the City of Shelby, NC, as well as the Nashville Rollerderby Girls.There is a map of the cities where the songs were written inside the album art.Throughout 2008 and 2009, she has continued to tour heavily, sometimes playing as many as thirty shows in thirty days on the road.Tori donated the song “Leaving Side of Love” in the Campaign to Save Paste, a program launched by the magazine when it was in financial distress.Tori has appeared on the Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour with Rolling Stones pianist Chuck Leavell, NBC Channel 10 in Philadelphia, Lightning 100’s Nashville Sunday Night, and many other radio and television shows.Tori was one of the singers considered for the role of Arachne in the upcoming Broadway production of Spiderman, directed by Julie Taymor.Tori’s third full-length album, The Scorpion in the Story, was the second album she co-produced with David Henry.com in the same month.com, many others, and was a Nashville Scene’s Critic’s Pick.“Tall Towers” was also a highlighted track CMJ.” Each song is a true story written about an individual Tori met while on the road in 2008