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SHELBY LYNNE & ALLISoN MooRER Not Dark Yet

Country siblings finally make an album together

- STEPHEN DEUSNER

On their first record together, Lynne and Moorer – by now veterans of both the country mainstream and its margins – cover nine songs ranging from the usual suspects (the Louvin Brothers, Merle Haggard) to the unusual (The Killers, Nick Cave). Their voices blend beautifull­y, especially on Dylan’s title track and Jason Isbell’s “The Color Of A Cloudy Day”, but they caterwaul awkwardly on an unintentio­nally silly version of Nirvana’s “Lithium”. Their lone co-write, “Is It Too Much”, points toward a solid set of originals on the horizon.

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