Artist: Allison Moorer
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #73 Jan-Feb 2008
Allison Moorer – Mockingbird / Lizz Wright – The Orchard
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 so — usually — are their voices. The Orchard, Wright’s second recording with Craig Street [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Steve Earle / Allison Moorer / Laura Cantrell / Tim Easton – Southpaw (Brooklyn, NY)
According to what he told the SRO crowd at this all-acoustic CMJ songwriter’s showcase, Steve Earle had never played in Brooklyn before. But he seemed happy to be here. The youngish audience (a lot younger than him, anyway) cheered his entrance and enthusiastically mouthed the words to songs new and old. They were on the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #64 July-Aug 2006
Allison Moorer – Getting Somewhere
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 Me To Sleep” echoing Merle Haggard’s “Sing Me Back Home”. Moorer told me in an [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Allison Moorer – It really puts you in that place
A visit to the downstairs “clubhouse” of Allison Moorer and her writing partner and husband Doyle “Butch” Primm seems to reflect who they are. There are bits of recording equipment and pictures and posters of the musicians they admire hung neatly on the walls: Johnny Cash circa 1966, Keith Richards from the early ’70s, the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
Allison Moorer – Show
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 concerts, sung with Kid Rock and Phil Lee, and been shuttled among three labels under [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #44 March-April 2003
Allison Moorer – 12th & Porter (Nashville, TN)
Expectations were high when Allison Moorer drew a packed house to Nashville’s venerable 12th & Porter nightclub for two Saturday night shows that were being recorded for posterity and commerce (with both a live album and a DVD release planned for later this year). In addition to the importance of coming up with the goods [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #42 Nov-Dec 2002
Allison Moorer / Marah – Horseshoe (Toronto, Ontario)
The soothing and soulful country of Allison Moorer followed by the roots-cum-British-rock of Marah seemed an odd pairing, but in the end, the dichotomy made this double bill all the more appealing. Backed by a polished lineup, Moorer opened with “Think It Over”, a midtempo country number that demonstrated how her voice can steal the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #41 Sept-Oct 2002
Allison Moorer – Miss Fortune
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 “A Soft Place To Fall” (a song she co-wrote with fellow Nashvillian Gwil Owen) wound [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #29 Sept-Oct 2000
Allison Moorer – Loving, Leaving, Living
1. Decorated lies Everything that truly matters — music, art, life — finds expression within her extraordinary voice, a bold, slightly husky, thoroughly fearless instrument. The words come impeccably phrased, modestly adorned, smart and direct. And yet, even if Allison Moorer couldn’t sing a note, the songs she writes, mostly with her husband, Butch Primm, [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #17 Sept-Oct 1998
Allison Moorer – Her aim is true
“I do not claim to know anything about the music business,” says Allison Moorer. Seated inside a swanky conference room at MCA Records in Nashville, the lanky redhead seems cautious, even suspicious, of her glitzy surroundings. “It’s a strange thing to try to sell something to the masses that’s so personal.” But the music business [...]
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