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| | The Duel | | | Music Artist : | | Allison Moorer | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Sugarhill | | Release Date : | | 2004-04-13 | | Store Price : | | $17.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. I Ain't Giving Up on You
2. Baby Dreamer
3. Melancholy Polly
4. Believe You Me
5. One on the House
6. All Aboard
7. Duel
8. When Will You Ever Come Down
9. Louise Is in the Blue Moon
10. Once Upon a Time She Said
11. Sing Me to Sleep
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Continuing to Experiment and Finding Success
Submitted on: 2007-07-19 |
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| Alison continues to drift accross genres with "The Duel," her fourth album. This album is more like Miss Fortune than like either of her first two albums, but it is definitely a style its own. It is kind of a mix of blues and 90s alternative chick-music. There's not too much uptempo stuff on here, and there's not much upbeat stuff either. The songs are mostly storytelling that looks the darker moments of life [e.g., grief, depressioin] straight in the face. The album's not a downer though, just honest and thoughtful. Alison gets a bit political with the excellent "All Aboard," which mocks the rush into the Iraq War and the people who propelled it. Events have proven Alison right on this one. The song has a pulsing rhythm and guitars that evoke a train puffing along with serious momentum. Who's gonna stand in its way? "The Duel" is a great song with the imagery of life and death as opposing boxers and the singer is bitter with God for the death of her lover. This is not a country album, just a great album |
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Melodic Sounds
Submitted on: 2007-03-25 |
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| Although I've had this CD for several years, I thought it was time to add my brief feelings about Allison Moorer's Album. Allison's voice and her band simply move me. This CD of mood music once again delivers those melodic sounds that for me reach deep down somewhere in my soul. One reviewer called it "dark". So interesting how we can hear and see the same thing but be taken in different directions. So often I hear songs on the radio that do very little to affect my feelings. But when I listen to such songs by Allison Moorer I just don't understand why her songs are not the ones being played on the radio. It's her music that reaches within to grab my feelings. |
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 Ain't real Country, but fits Alt-Country! - More like 4 1/2 stars
Submitted on: 2005-10-08 |
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This CD is a nice crossover ... meaning it ain't real country, but if you need to categorize it, it fits into Alt-Country along the lines of Lucinda Williams perhaps with a little bluesy/rocky undertone.
It took me several listenings to appreciate this CD and that's why I waited quite a long time from the release date to write a review. I really like this CD now -- it demonstrates excellent songwriting skills with nice fundamental arrangements, meaning there aren't many instruments involved and the bluring lead guitar at times in the right places with hot uncomplicated guitar riffs gives this CD album a nice edge and that's a good thing.
Allison's voice is just phenomenal and it may take a little getting used to it as it's on the deeper end of the spectrum, but it shows lots of volume and competence. Needless to say that Allison Moorer is pro and as a singer/songwriter she's certainly in the country's elite. |
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A Winner Pound for Pound
Submitted on: 2005-06-14 |
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Easily one of the best releases I've listened to in a long while. Outdistances any thing she has released previous to this. More confident vocals than she shared on say, "Picture" with Kid Rock overshadowing her.
No question she channels Neil Young and Crazy Horse: "I AIN"T GIVING UP ON YOU" (Down by the River), "BABY DREAMER" (Helpless) and "WHEN WILL YOU EVER COME DOWN" (When the Morning Comes) are dead ringers. Not that that's a bad thing. And as the Judds once sang; if you like girls with guitars, this is the stop on the musical map you want to visit.
As many have mentioned "ALL ABOARD" is the hottest track. It rocks and the chorus should have you tapping your toes and humming along, even if the subject matter is dead serious.
I have been a bit critical of Ms. Moorer in the past for her hit-or-miss MISS FORTUNE album. But this effort hits on all cylinders. The lyrics of the title track "THE DUAL" are so well thought thru and so sad, you feel like the punch-drunk boxer portrayed in the song. The title track leads into the closers which bring The Dual into the final rounds of slower ballads.
I've listened to it constantly since getting it. Usually I'll spin something once, make a decision on which cuts I like, and move on, but I instead want my colleagues to try it and buy it.
Lucinda or Kathleen Edwards are contemporaries, so if you like alt-country this should be in your collection.
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 Are you kidding me?
Submitted on: 2005-03-01 |
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| What a dark, hopeless piece of dung. Don't bother with the other reviews, this album is not worth your time-mine went into the garbage. |
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