Mockingbird

'Mockingbird' is an album from Allison Moorer of songs written by some of the great female songwriters of our time.

"I was talking to my manager about what songs I was thinking of including on the record," says Moorer, "And he said 'Well, you'll write something for it, right? I mean, you are a female songwriter'. Yes. I am."

So Allison wrote a new song especially for this project, the compelling title track, which opens the album. Apart from that, though, here she pays tribute to women songwriters and performers she has much admired over the years. In order of play, June Carter Cash, Patti Smith, Nina Simone, Kate McGarrigle, Gillian Welch, Joni Mitchell, Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, a previously unrecorded song by her sister Shelby Lynne, Julie Miller, Chan Marshall (Cat Power) and Jessi Colter…. "The first song I ever learned to sing by myself," Allison reveals about the closing performance.