Allison Moorer

With a sultry voice, Alison Moorer sings her seventh album with all the sweetness heard on her 2002's Miss Fortune and all the grit of her older sister, Shelby Lynne. "I Ain't Givin' Up On You" kicks off chunky riffs and a slow strutting groove. The title track is an intimate ballad about questioning one's faith.

For Alabamian Allison Moorer, country isn't music for boots and cowboy hats so much as it
is white blues. Moorer's voice is a slow, side-of-the-mouth drawl, one part bourbon, one
part molasses. Throughout The Duel, her fifth record and first for indie label Sugar Hill, the
singer stalks the beat, just behind raggedly rocking guitars. Most of the songs are like a
Southern accent: eight miles an hour, deliberate and very dangerous to underes... More >