{"id":1316987,"date":"2019-11-27T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1815116"},"modified":"2019-11-27T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T13:00:53","slug":"allison-moorer-shares-her-truth-through-memoir-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/allison-moorer-shares-her-truth-through-memoir-and-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Allison Moorer Shares Her Truth Through Memoir and Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:685343?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/shelburnec\/\" title=\"Posts by Craig Shelburne\" rel=\"author\">Craig Shelburne<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n7m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Allison Moorer is truly a writer, as evidenced by her new album and memoir, both titled <em>Blood<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Although she\u2019s flown under the radar of the mainstream country world for two decades, Moorer has established an impressive musical legacy in Nashville. She\u2019s written songs for Kenny Chesney and Miranda Lambert, received an Oscar nomination, and worked with musicians ranging from Kid Rock to Buddy Miller. But it was a conversation with author and poet Maya Angelou that compelled her to write about a traumatic event from her teenage years in Alabama.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v5wap8gJy34?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v5wap8gJy34?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen my son was about six weeks old, I was asked to be a guest on her radio show,\u201d Moorer says. \u201cShe asked me during the course of the interview about my childhood, and she said at some point, \u2018OK, well, now you have John Henry. What are you going to tell him when he\u2019s old enough to ask about this thing that happened in your life and about your upbringing and what happened with your family?\u2019 And I didn\u2019t have an answer for that. So in whatever way, that sent me on the course to writing this book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Moorer and her sister Shelby Lynne have cultivated loyal audiences through music, each has been reluctant in past interviews to discuss the 1986 incident in which their father killed their mother, and then himself, in the family\u2019s backyard. But in <em>Blood<\/em>, Moorer examines that event with the eye of a journalist and the intimacy of a daughter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qd92hs0DnRA?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qd92hs0DnRA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a result, both the album and memoir are brave accounts of her own life as she recounts fond (and occasionally funny) memories as well as the harrowing domestic abuse she witnessed at her father\u2019s hands. Shelby Lynne wrote the introduction.<\/p>\n<p>Moorer says she started writing the book in earnest in the fall of 2012, and did four rewrites before completing it on her 45th birthday in 2017. \u201cWhat I learned about myself while I was writing this book is really essential to my becoming a person who has healed enough to be a good parent,\u201d she observes.<\/p>\n<p>The subject of healing is woven throughout the narrative off <em>Blood<\/em>, as well as the track list of the companion album. That\u2019s particularly true in the closing track, \u201cHeal,\u201d which she wrote with her good friend, Mary Gauthier.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YLZ_2lLHEDo?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YLZ_2lLHEDo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>By reuniting with producer Kenny Greenberg, the self-released album fits neatly into her catalog that stretches back to her acclaimed 1998 debut, <em>Alabama Song<\/em>, and 2000 masterpiece, <em>The Hardest Part<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about her own healing process from the time she started the book until now, Moorer replies, \u201cWell, I think that we\u2019re always healing from something. I don\u2019t know that I will ever be able to say, \u2018Oh, I am healed from this,\u2019 from what I went through with my family of origin, from the effects of my parents dying when I was 14. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s necessarily possible. And you know, life is a roller coaster. Some days you\u2019re diamonds and some days you\u2019re dirt. But what I hope that I can have is just a level of self-awareness that allows me to interact with the world with some amount of grace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1815116\/allison-moorer-shares-her-truth-through-memoir-and-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Craig Shelburne 7m ago Allison Moorer is truly a writer, as evidenced by her new album and memoir, both titled Blood. Although she\u2019s flown under the radar of the mainstream country world for two decades, Moorer has established an impressive musical legacy in Nashville. 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