NEW YORK (AP) – Shelby Lynne has a succinct explanation for why she and her sister Allison Moorer had two decades of successful solo careers before making a disc together. “Timing,” she said.
The Alabama-bred sisters have forged their own identities skirting the Americana music world. The soulful blast of 1999’s “I Am Shelby Lynne” led the older sister to win a Grammy Award, and she’s followed an eclectic path since. Moorer, more at home in Nashville, Tennessee, although she lives in New York, earned her strongest reviews with the most recent “Down to Believing” album that touched on the breakup of her marriage to Steve Earle and their son’s autism diagnosis.
There has to be something more to it than the bi-coastal sisters being able to schedule togetherness on something other than Facetime, right?
“Well, it’s important for our legacy to do this,” Lynne said. “The most important thing for me is to be able to do something that stands the test of time with my sister and our plan is to maybe keep doing it.”
The disc “Not Dark Yet,” out Friday, represents their second attempt at collaboration. The first, six years ago, was aborted.