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Allison Moorer’s stark and moving new album, accompanied by her forthcoming book, Blood: A Memoir, is her attempt to make sense of the senselessness, when her estranged father shot her much-loved mother on their Mobile, Alabama, front lawn in 1986 before turning the gun on himself.
None of these songs can have been easy to write or indeed sing. But you sense Moorer had to do it. “It’s taken a lifetime. I am 47 years old. But I also know you keep telling the story until the story is told,” she says on her website.“This isn’t only a companion piece. It stands alone in its own way, shows and says things beyond words. To me, it’s all part of it, and it’s also unto itself. It took a long time to get here, but now, it's told"
Moorer’s singing has never been better or, unsurprisingly, more heartfelt. The 10 songs, utilizing a range of styles from old-timey folk to country soul, cover the event, the aftermath and the voices of those involved and affected.
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