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A rich, varied and emotionally resonant album that eschews AOR sugar fixes for smart, graceful songwriting and soulful but unshowy performances.
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Make no mistake: This is a country album, but it's closer to what the music might have become rather than to where it has sunk in its current doldrums.
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The record is a female country album for people who dislike female country albums. It's not too smooth, too shrill, or too Stepford.
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An adventurous singer/songwriter just like her sister Shelby Lynne, the vocally gifted Moorer doesn't shy away from bucking country tradition. In fact, she seems to revel in it.
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This time, she adds a healthy dose of Southern soul to the mix and the effect is extraordinary.
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It's a richly textured album, often filled with a melancholy that suits Moorer's dark, rich voice just perfectly.
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UncutMiss Fortune is her least mainstream album to date and finds her moving delightfully nearer the terrain occupied by sister Shelby Lynne. [Sep 2002, p.114]
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MojoRelative to her potential, she remains an underachiever, straitjacketed by Nashville craftsmanship in writing and arrangement. [Oct 2002, p.104]
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The strength Moorer has shown from first album to second album and finally to this genre-leaping experiment in self-recreation is enough to not only merit a listen, but to make sure we pay attention to the fourth album when it arrives.
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Q MagazineFalls several steps short of its predecessor. [Aug 2002, p.130]
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Like many veterans of the Nineties country boom, she has matured into a slick Seventies style of singer-songwriter soft rock, with average song length creeping up to the four-and-a-half-minute range.
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BlenderThough Moorer's lyrics sometimes slide from smart to schmaltzy, her superb singing ensures that every tune on Miss Fortune is incandescent. [#10, p.122]
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peternDec 6, 2002