Her recent successes include critical and popular acclaim for herself and her husband — musician Steve Earle — two new albums, a tour, and a role in “The People Speak,” a documentary about those who ...
Allison Moorer will never forget how the song “One Voice” came to her. Up late one Saturday night in June of 2021, Moorer was getting ready to write after putting her son John Henry Earle to bed.
Early on in “Blood: A Memoir” (Da Capo), celebrated Alabama-born singer-songwriter Allison Moorer distills the moment that shattered her young life: “I think it was around 5 a.m. when the gunshots ...
Musician and author Allison Moorer’s new EP, “Wish For You,” doesn’t open with a melody, guitar chord or drum beat. It starts with a steady metallic squeak, followed by the voice of her son, John ...
Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer are sisters with long, acclaimed solo careers. But they've kept their musical lives separate. For the first time, Lynne and Moorer started performing intimate shows on ...
Allison Moorer is one of those artists who's hard to classify. Is she pop/rock, folk, or country? As with other artists--including her mentor Lonesome Bob, her sister Shelby Lynn, or her husband, ...
After touring together in 2010, sisters Allison Moorer and Shelby Lynne are planning to record their first collabrative album. “We’re starting to write in March and hopefully we’ll put out a record ...
There’s a song on Joan Shelley’s new album, Like The River Loves The Sea, called “The Fading” that marries natural imagery to human memory in a way rarely heard in folk music—or any kind of music—in ...
Bob Dylan needs women. Not necessarily in the personal sense, although like most prominent male artists he relied on female companions' creative input and connections as he cut out his path to ...
For years now, decades even, many music fans have had an intense interest in the childhood trauma of sisters Allison Moorer and Shelby Lynne — along with expectation that we’d never really hear too ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Singer-songwriter Allison Moorer has long been hesitant to talk about the deaths of her parents when she was just 14, but it was no secret. The murder-suicide in 1986 was something ...