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allison moorer Blood

10/25/2019

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Allison Moorer from the album Blood available on Autotelic Records (by Bryant Liggett)
 
On Blood, the latest release from Allison Moorer, the songwriter dives headfirst into a family tragedy that few would recover from, the murder-suicide of her parents when she was a teen. The world is full of songs of heavy content, but murder ballads and songs of emotional trauma always carry an extra weight when the voices telling the story are personally connected to the subject matter. “Cold Cold Earth” aches, and when Allison Moorer sings ‘now they are lying, in the cold, cold earth, such a sad, sad story, such a sad, sad world’ you wonder how Moorer can physically separate as a character to get through singing the words, re-telling the story.
“The Rock and The Hill” is a subtle Blues rocker while “I’m The One to Blame” and “Set My Soul Free” bear the full brunt of emotional weight in the tale despite being instrumentally stripped bare. “Heal” is a gospel weeper, Allison Moorer pleading for some form of respite, acknowledging personal toughness while asking someone to “help me lay my weapons down, help me give the love I feel, help me hold myself with kindness, and help me heal’. Songwriting has always been an act to exorcise demons, a way to rid rabid thoughts of past events from your head, opening the events to a public forum where maybe those thoughts can make peace. No matter the lyric content, songs can, and should, provide some form of pleasure, even if it is a harsh, murderous happening in the songwriters own life. While some storyteller offer a peak into their closet with Blood, Allison Moorer throws open the door, invites everyone in for a full look.
(by Bryant Liggett)
Listen and buy the music of Allison Moorer from AMAZON
http://allisonmoorer.com/
 

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