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Description: Annie and Tom dancing the song A Soft Place to Fall by Allison Moorer in the film The Horse Whisperer. ... Soft Place to Fall ...
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Allison Moorer News and Gossip
Billboard - Found Oct. 27, 2009
Allison Moorer is planning a February release for her seventh studio album, 'Crows,' her label debut for Rykodisc and a marked stylistic departure
Country Music Television - Found Oct. 6, 2009
Allison Moorer is wrapping up her new album and she invited me into the studio to hear a few tracks.
Country Music Television - Found Aug. 26, 2009
If you're a big fan of Allison Moorer's early work, you'll be pleased to know that she's coming back to Nashville at the end of the year to make a
Reuters - Found Nov. 4, 2009
... s in Mountain View, Calif., as will Panic at the Disco at Waterloo in Austin, and Steve Earle and Allison Moorer at Manifest in Charlotte, N.C...
HotPress.com - Found Nov. 5, 2009
Earle?s wife, the acclaimed singer-songwriter Allison Moorer, is featured on backing vocals on 'Loretta' and 'To Live Is To Fly'.
Corpus Christi Caller-Times - Found Nov. 5, 2009
? Allison Moorer will release her next CD, ?Crows,? Feb. 9 under a new contract with Rykodisc Records.
Ann Arbor News - Found Nov. 5, 2009
Love Song 5. John Butler Trio - Zebra 6. Ingrid Michaelson - The Way I Am 7. Steve Earle/Allison Moorer - City of Immigrants 8. Matt Costa...
Mayo News - Found Nov. 2, 2009
Thats easy enough for Earle these days, because he and his wife, singer-songwriter Allison Moorer, now live on the very Greenwich Village...
All About Jazz - Found Oct. 22, 2009
... will be released on Bar None on January 12, 2009. Producer McLaurin (Justin Townes Earle, Allison Moorer, Slaid Cleaves, Matthew Ryan) has...
Freedy Johnston to Release First New-Material Album in Eight Years - Cybergrass
Explore AllPR inside - Found Oct. 21, 2009
... will be released on Bar None on January 12, 2009. Producer McLaurin (Justin Townes Earle, Allison Moorer, Slaid Cleaves, Matthew Ryan) has...
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Allison Moorer |
| Born | June 21, 1972 |
| Origin | Mobile, Alabama |
| Genres | country, folk |
| Occupations | singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | vocals, guitar, piano |
| Years active | 1998-present |
| Labels | MCA Nashville Records Universal South Sugar Hill Records New Line Records] Ryko Records |
| Associated acts | Shelby Lynne, Steve Earle |
| Website | www.allisonmoorer.com |
Allison Moorer (born June 21, 1972) is a Grammy and Academy Award nominated American alternative country singer and the younger sister of Shelby Lynne. She signed to MCA Nashville in 1998 and made her debut on the U.S. Billboard country charts with the release of her debut single "A Soft Place To Fall", which reached #73 on the charts.
Since the release of her debut album Alabama Song, she released seven albums and eleven singles, five of which reached positions on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
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Biography
Early years
Allison was raised in Frankville, Alabama, just north of Mobile. Raised on George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Emmylou Harris, she sang harmonies as a toddler, eventually thinking she'd make a career of it. Following the murder-suicide of her parents in 1986, she moved into her aunt and uncle's home.
Musical career
Not long afterwards, Lynne moved to Nashville for a career in music, and after her high school graduation, Moorer followed. She sang harmonies with Lynne for a while but returned to Alabama to earn a degree in public relations. She skipped the graduation ceremony to move back to Nashville.
There, she met Doyle "Butch" Primm, an Oklahoma-reared musician who soon became her husband and frequent songwriting partner. In June 1996, she took part in a series of tributes to her songwriter friend, the late Walter Hyatt, singing his "Tell Me Baby" at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. Nashville agent Bobby Cudd was sufficiently impressed to hook her up with producer Tony Brown. After a few meetings, Brown asked her to cut some demos, from which two tracks -- "Pardon Me" and "Call My Name" -- ended up on her first MCA album, Alabama Song.
Her song "A Soft Place to Fall" was tapped for The Horse Whisperer in 1998, and she also appeared in the movie. Because the ballad earned her an Academy Award nomination,1 she performed it on the 1999 Oscars ceremony. However, none of her singles from Alabama Song or its follow-up The Hardest Part caught on at radio, though both projects were highly praised by critics.
When Brown moved from MCA to Universal South, Moorer followed. Her 2002 album Miss Fortune earned more raves but didn't meet sales expectations. She almost got another big break by recording the duet "Picture" with Kid Rock after Sheryl Crow declined. However, Crow changed her mind, and the Rock-Crow version was a huge radio hit. Yet, the song was credited on the charts to both Crow and Moorer, in addition, the CD single featuring Moorer sold a 500,000 copies and is certified Gold by the RIAA.
Her ballad "Tumbling Down" (from Miss Fortune) was featured on the soundtrack of the popular 2002 film The Rookie.
Her album, Show was recorded in one night (two performances) at the 12th and Porter, Nashville and despite popular belief, it features the first recorded collaboration of both Moorer sisters.
After releasing Show and DVD on Universal South, Moorer moved to independent label Sugar Hill Records. With a slightly rougher edge than past efforts, The Duel was released in April 2004.
About a year after The Duel, Moorer divorced Primm and married Steve Earle, after serving as his opening act on a European tour. Earle produced her 2006 album, Getting Somewhere. Moorer wrote all the songs, with the exception of one co-written with Earle. The couple live in New York City. She and Earle were nominated for a Grammy award in the category Best Country Collaboration with Vocals, for the song "Days Aren't Long Enough" from Earle's "Washington Square Serenade."
Moorer released the Buddy Miller-produced Mockingbird in February 2008 2; an album mainly of covers of songs by female singer/songwriters including her sister, Shelby Lynne.
Discography
Studio albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US Heat | US Indie | ||
| 1998 | Alabama Song
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68 | — | — |
| 2000 | The Hardest Part
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26 | 26 | — |
| 2002 | Miss Fortune
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35 | 34 | — |
| 2003 | Show
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49 | — | — |
| 2004 | The Duel
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55 | — | 41 |
| 2006 | Getting Somewhere
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— | — | — |
| 2008 | Mockingbird
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— | 18 | 44 |
| 2010 | Crows
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To be released | ||
| "—" denotes the album failed to chart | ||||
Compilations
| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 2005 | The Definitive Collection
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| 2008 | The Ultimate Collection
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Singles
| Year | Single | Chart positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | CAN Country | |||
| 1998 | "A Soft Place to Fall" | 73 | — | Alabama Song |
| "Set You Free" | 72 | — | ||
| "Alabama Song" | — | 73 | ||
| 1999 | "Pardon Me" | — | — | |
| 2000 | "Send Down an Angel" | 66 | * | The Hardest Part |
| 2001 | "Think It Over" | 57 | * | |
| 2002 | "Tumbling Down" | — | * | Miss Fortune |
| "Cold in California" | — | * | ||
| 2003 | "Going Down" (with Shelby Lynne) | — | * | Show |
| 2004 | "All Aboard" | — | — | The Duel |
| 2006 | "Fairweather" | — | — | Getting Somewhere |
| 2007 | "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl" | — | — | Mockingbird |
| 2008 | "Dancing Barefoot" | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart * denotes unknown peak positions |
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Guest singles
| Year | Single | Artist | Chart positions | Album | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | US AC | |||||||
| 2002 | "Picture"A | Kid Rock | 21 | 4 | 17 | single only | |||
| 2008 | "Days Aren't Long Enough" | Steve Earle | — | — | — | Washington Square Serenade | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
- ASong was credited on the charts to Kid Rock with Sheryl Crow or Allison Moorer.
References
- ^ Session Timeout - Academy Awards Database - AMPAS
- ^ Morningstar, Mary (11 March 2008). "Allison Moorer Pays Tribute to Artists Who Inspired Her with 'Mockingbird'". VOA News (Voice of America). http://voanews.com/english/archive/2008-03/2008-03-11-voa21.cfm. Retrieved 03 January 2009.
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