Allison Moorer covers female songwriters on Mockingbird:

Amazon.com
One of the most technically gifted vocalists in contemporary country, Allison Moorer sharpens her interpretive chops through this selection of songs from other female artists. After setting the tone with her self-composed, bittersweet title track, framed by chamber strings and punctuated with a saxophone solo, she and ace producer-guitarist Buddy Miller find revelatory dimensions in material by artists ranging from Nina Simone (the sultry, torchy "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl") to Joni Mitchell (an older-and-wiser "Both Sides Now") to June Carter Cash ("Ring of Fire," which she wrote for her husband, Johnny, and which here features a languid vocal over a rhythm loop). You’d expect Moorer to do fine by her sister Shelby Lynne ("She Knows Where She Goes"), Gillian Welch ("Revelator"), and Julie Miller ("Orphan Train"), but it’s a real surprise to hear her connecting from the inside out with Patti Smith’s hypnotic "Dancing Barefoot" or channeling the blues of Ma Rainey ("Daddy, Goodbye Blues," featuring Moorer’s husband Steve Earle). Moorer shouldn’t give up writing, but she obviously doesn’t need to write much to make inspired music that sounds very much her own. --Don McLeese

Review
"Heart stopping" --Variety

Product Description
Working with producer and acclaimed roots artist Buddy Miller on this release, Moorer has conjured a rich pastiche of the phases of women's hearts, lives, needs, and yearnings on this recording of other peoples' songs. It's about honoring the women who inspired her. "Mockingbird" is an album of subtlety, sensuality, and grace. Moorer is a 2008 Grammy Award nominee for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (Steve Earle & Allison Moorer).

1. Mockingbird (Allison Moorer)
2. Ring Of Fire (June Carter Cash)
3. Dancing Barefoot (Patti Smith)
4. I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl (Nina Simone)
5. Go, Leave (Kate McGarrigle)
6. Revelator (Gillian Welch)
7. Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
8. Daddy, Goodbye Blues (Ma Rainey)
9. She Knows Where She Goes (Shelby Lynne)
10. Orphan Train (Julie Miller)
11. Where Is My Love (Cat Power)
12. I’m Looking For Blue Eyes (Jessi Colter)

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Track-by-track comments are available at Allison’s website:

http://www.allisonmoorer.com

Maybe we should compile a list of artists who have recorded cover albums, whose songs have been covered on other cover albums. (See Patti Smith above.)

i've grown to like both allison moorer and her sister shelby lynne.

they do 3 really nice duets on moorer's "show" CD.

and moorer moves closer to rock and roll and farther from country with each successive album.

renny

I'll never forget the time Allison Moorer appeared on The Chris Isaak Show on Showtime.

She played a love interest and then sang at the end of the show. She looked gorgeous and did an all around great job in that episode.

When will The Chris Isaak Show get to DVD?!!

btw...Chris Isaak and Stevie Nicks to tour together this summer.