GETTING SOMEWHERE - ALLISON MOORER
After six years of middling success on the country charts, Moorer, in pitch-perfect collaboration with new producer/husband Steve Earle, comes storming out of her doldrums with a stunning shot of muscular, melodic rock. Substantive lyrics pervade the album’s 10 cuts, as does an absolute commitment to the power of bass, drums and guitars. Beatlesesque acoustic cuts (”You’ll Never Know”) and crunching rockers (”Take It So Hard”) drive the project straight to its mark. From the breezy, rocking “Fairweather,” the gorgeous ballad “Where You Are” and the title song — a proclamation of hard-won awakening — Moorer shows herself an artist not so much reinvented as finally in touch with who she’s been all along.Billboard
