For someone on the verge of unleashing a vast reservoir of wrath for public consumption, singer-songwriter Allison Moorer sounded downright chipper, much like Rayna James on the night last year when the fictitious country music star of Nashville swept the imaginary version […]
Sometimes Lizz Wright, the minister’s daughter, and Allison Moorer, the ex-marine’s daughter, close in on a note and sound almost like the same woman, but they’re not. Their experiences of being female and southern and alive are entirely different, and […]
Allison Moorer’s 2004 release, The Duel, sounded like just that — a concept album about struggles with faith, relationships, the status quo, the weight of promises and hopes for the future. The set ended with a death, of sorts, “Sing […]
A prime example of an artist caught between the intransigent rock of the mainstream and the intangible hard place of the underground, Allison Moorer has managed to have it both ways, and neither. She’s played the Academy Awards and house […]
It’s no wonder Allison Moorer tagged along with producer Tony Brown when he left MCA Nashville to launch the putatively hipper Universal South imprint. Moorer made two albums of consummately soulful music under Brown’s watch at MCA, but even though […]
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