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Her father was a local bandleader and her mother a harmony-singing teacher; as children, she and her younger sister Allison — later a country recording artist in her own right — sometimes joined their parents on-stage to sing along. However, Lynne's father was a violent alcoholic who abused his wife.
Nov 4, 2019 · Singer-songwriter Allison Moorer was 14 years old when her father shot and killed her mother — and then himself. Moorer and her older sister, singer Shelby Lynne, were left to live with their...
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Oct 29, 2019 · Shelby went outside, and on the front lawn, she found their father had shot their mother and then turned the gun on himself. "I think he just broke," Moorer said. Shelby, at 17, and...
Allison Moorer, a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, wrote her memoir as a way to reckon with the moment in which her life and that of her sister, fellow musician Shelby Lynne Moorer, was...
May 25, 2012 · With that thought in his brain, the father of singers Shelby Lynne and Alison Moorer pulled the trigger on his wife and himself in 1986 when Shelby was 17 and Alison 14. Lynne wrote those words for “Heaven’s only Days Down The Road” from her startlingly personal current album, "Revelation Road."
Nov 22, 2019 · Musician Allison Moorer appeared at Book Soup in West Hollywood in support of her new memoir, “Blood,” which plumbs the murder of her mother at the hands of her father when she was 14. (Carolyn...
Oct 28, 2019 · Associated Press. 0:04. 0:41. Singer-songwriter Allison Moorer has long been hesitant to talk about the deaths of her parents when she was just 14, but it was no secret. The murder-suicide in 1986...
