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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 18 august 2017
Sisters Lynne and Moorer finally working together

By DAVID BAUDER It’s a special thing.”
Associated Press Lynne and Moorer, who
NEW YORK (AP) — Shelby casually refer to each other
Lynne has a succinct ex- as “sissy,” trade verses and
planation for why she and harmonize so seamlessly
her sister Allison Moorer that it’s hard to tell where
had two decades of suc- one voice begins and the
cessful solo careers before other ends. Producer Ted-
making a disc together. dy Thompson was chosen
“Timing,” she said. because he knows his way
The Alabama-bred sisters around harmony and musi-
have forged their own cal families. Each woman
identities skirting the Ameri- brought their own selec-
cana music world. The tions to the recording ses-
soulful blast of 1999’s “I Am sions. Thompson did, too,
Shelby Lynne” led the old- “but we took none of his
er sister to win a Grammy suggestions,” Moorer said.
Award, and she’s followed Choices like the Louvin
an eclectic path since. Brothers’ “Every Time You
Moorer, more at home in Leave” and Jessi Col-
Nashville, Tennessee, al- ter’s “I’m Looking for Blue
though she lives in New Eyes” were easy; the sis-
York, earned her strongest ters sang them together as
reviews with the most re- kids. Lynne suggested Nick
cent “Down to Believing” Cave’s intensely romantic
album that touched on the “Into My Arms” and Moorer
breakup of her marriage to brought in the Killers’ “My
Steve Earle and their son’s List,” which her older sister
autism diagnosis. initially resisted.
There has to be something “I listened to it a few times
more to it than the bi- and I thought, ‘I don’t hear
coastal sisters being able Allison Moorer, left, and Shelby Lynne, right, pose for a portrait on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, in this,’” she said. “When she
to schedule togetherness New York. played it for me on guitar, I
on something other than Associated Press thought, ‘Now I get it.’”
Facetime, right? Nirvana’s “Lithium” is the
“Well, it’s important for our “Timing,” Lynne repeated. That load goes unspoken in said. “I was thinking about most experimental choice;
legacy to do this,” Lynne More specifically, they the song, although Lynne, empathy the other day their version may take a
said. “The most impor- didn’t have enough time now 48, and Moorer, 45, and that’s one of the main few listens to click. Lynne
tant thing for me is to be to write. That partly ex- share a heavy one. They themes of this record. This said she feels Kurt Cobain
able to do something that plains why this one, named were teenagers when their record is about our relation- had a hidden “country
stands the test of time with for the Bob Dylan song, is father shot and killed their ship. We’ve been singing to bone,” and Moorer said
my sister and our plan is to a collection of covers with mother, and then himself, ourselves and other people she learned how to play
maybe keep doing it.” one original. That song, “Is outside their home. “Is it too for a long time. On this re- guitar to Nirvana’s “Un-
The disc “Not Dark Yet,” it Too Much,” closes the much, the hurting in your cord we’re really singing to plugged.”
out Friday, represents their album and features Lynne eyes?” Moorer sings. “Is it each other.” The selections “sort of
second attempt at collab- and Moorer trying to pick too much, the feelings we The music, she said, allows shaped up to be where
oration. The first, six years each other up because, as try to hide?” “the world to see the beau- we’ve been, where we are
ago, was aborted. the lyrics say, “no one else “I think it’s just a love let- ty of our relationship. That and where we’re going,”
What was wrong then? bears this heavy load.” ter between us,” Moorer hard-won, chin-up theme. Moorer said.q

Bonnie Tyler to sing ‘Total

Eclipse’ hit during eclipse

MIAMI (AP) — Some cruise theater on its ship Oasis of “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
passengers will have the ul- the Seas as part of a “Total topped the Billboard charts
timate soundtrack for Mon- Eclipse Cruise.” for four weeks in 1983. DNCE
day’s solar eclipse when The ship leaves from Flor- is best known for its 2015 hit
Bonnie Tyler sings her hit ida on Sunday. It will sail “Cake by the Ocean.”q
“Total Eclipse of the Heart” through the Caribbean to-
on board. ward St. Maarten on Mon- In this May 17, 2013, file pho-
Royal Caribbean says the day when the moon passes to, Bonnie Tyler performs her
Welsh singer will be backed in front of the sun. A total song “Believe in Me” during
on the power ballad by Joe eclipse will be viewable in a rehearsal for the final of the
Jonas’ band DNCE for a a narrow band across the Eurovision Song Contest at the
Malmo Arena in Malmo, Swe-
performance in an outdoor sea. den.