Allison Moorer

This twenty-eight-year-old's stunning alto voice has the wide-screen sweep of a movie
about the back roads of Alabama. That cinematic effect is the star of The Hardest Part,
Moorer's follow-up to her 1998 debut, Alabama Song. Occasionally, the album meshes, and
the music is transporting, like when Moorer is on a groove with striking strings and melodic
peaks on "It's Time I Tried." But more often, as on the slow, wailing "Bring Me All... More >