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Allison Moorer on Setting Performing Aside to Take a Job With the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum: ‘It’s a Way to Give Back to What Saved Me’
Allison Moorer, an Oscar/Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, explains why she's setting performing aside to take a job with the country music museum.
When the Nashville institution announced a list of new hires and promotions on Thursday, it included some top names brought in from the realms of journalism and other fields, but Moorer’s stood out: She is someone you might expect to see mentioned in one of the museum’s floating exhibits. Notably, she got her MFA and wrote two of the best memoirs that have ever been written by someone known primarily as a musician, 2019’s “Blood,” about her life growing up in Alabama with sister and fellow singer Shelby Lynne, and 2021’s “I Dream He Talks to Me,” about raising an autistic son. Moorer’s career stretches back to her 1998 debut, “Alabama Song,” the first of three albums she made for Universal Music’s Nashville imprints before she switched over to more Americana-favoring labels like Sugar Hill, Rykodisc and Thirty Tigers.
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