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Allison Moorer - Mockingbird
| Allmusic | | There is something oddly "coincidental" about Allison Moorer's Mockingbird album being released just a couple of weeks after her sister Shelby Lynne's Just a Little Lovin'. Both albums are covers sets with one original apiece. That said, they are wildly different albums. While Lynne's record is a stripped down collection of tunes associated with the late British vocalist Dusty Springfield, Moorer's is a natural sounding set of tunes that run the gamut from rock & roll to the early barrelhouse and modern jazz-blues to country and folk and indie -- and there is one song on it by Lynne. The album was produced by Buddy Miller and includes a stellar cast of players that includes everyone from Richard Bennett and Moorer's husband Steve Earle to Miller and his wife Julie, Darrell Scott, Tammy Rogers, Tim O'Brien, Phil Madeira, and many others. It's a lush record, but it's an organic one....full text |
| | Courant | | Allison Moorer's recent albums have been her best ones, sweet-sounding things with raw edges enhanced by an observant, expressive lyrical approach that has helped make her one of alternative country's most accessible artists. She sacrifices some of that defining character as she digs into other artists' perspectives on "Mockingbird," a wide-ranging sampler of female compositions on which Moorer mostly provides subtle touches and an abundance of cool presence....full text |
| | Thephoenix | | Allison Moorer has been overshadowed her entire career by the success of older sister Shelby Lynne, and that’s hardly changed with the release of the ladies’ new CDs, both of which are covers discs. (It was, after all, Lynne’s Dusty Springfield tribute, Just a Little Lovin’, that occasioned a splashy New York Times Magazine profile a few weeks back.) Yet Moorer is an impressive stylist with a gorgeous Southern-soul voice all her own; her albums haven’t elicited the attention Lynne’s have, but a few of them (particularly 2006’s Getting Somewhere) are just as good....full text |
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