Not Dark Yet (album)

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Not Dark Yet
Allison Moorer & Shelby Lynne - Not Dark Yet Cover.jpg
Studio album by
Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer
ReleasedAugust 18, 2017
Recorded2016
Genre Americana, Country, Folk
Label Thirty Tigers, Silver Cross Records
Producer Teddy Thompson
Allison Moorer chronology
Down to Believing
(2015)		Not Dark Yet
(2017)		 Blood
(2019)
Shelby Lynne chronology
I Can't Imagine
(2015)		Not Dark Yet
(2017)

Not Dark Yet is a duet album between sisters and country/Americana singer-songwriters Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer. Produced by British folk artist Teddy Thompson, Not Dark Yet was released on August 18, 2017. [1] It is Moorer's ninth studio album, Lynne's fifteenth and marks the first official studio collaboration between the siblings. [2] The title track is taken from the Bob Dylan song of the same name.

Contents

Not Dark Yet features covers of songs from a variety of genres and also includes an original song written by Lynne and Moorer. [3]

On August 10, 2017, the album was available to listen to in its entirety on NPR as part of their "first listen" series. [4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.3/10 [5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Rolling StoneStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Paste Magazine 8.8 [8]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
The Irish Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Exclaim! 8/10 [12]
Spectrum CultureStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [13]

AllMusic's Thom Jurek says, "Despite singing together since they were old enough to talk, it took a lifetime for sisters Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer to record together." [6]

Will Hermes reviewed the album for Rolling Stone and gave it 3½ out of a possible 5 stars. He writes, "the title track is the crown jewel, showing the river-deep musicality of a latter-day Dylan croaker when it’s parsed by immaculate, blood-kin harmony." [7]

Paste Magazine's Jon Young rates this album an 8.8 and says, "Not Dark Yet works beautifully. Featuring nine covers and one devastating original, this lovely longplayer spotlights their tangy harmonies, with Lynne’s saltier vocals and Moorer’s sweeter singing intertwining gracefully, evoking ancient traditions of family music-making." [8]

PopMatters' Richard Driver gives the album 8 out of a possible 10 and writes, "The most surprising element to this enjoyable and thoughtful album is that this is their first duet album. That the songs are covers is ultimately irrelevant to the care, arrangements, and deliberate duet Lynne and Moorer deliver, the songs finding their strength and shared focus to push ahead after loss." [9]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 8 on the both the Billboard's Americana/Folk Albums and Independent Albums charts, [14] [15] and No. 39 on Top Country Albums, [16] with 3,700 copies sold in the first week. [17] It has sold 6,400 copies as of September 2017. [18]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Original artist/sLength
1."My List" Brandon Flowers The Killers 2:53
2."Every Time You Leave" C. Louvin, I. Louvin The Louvin Brothers 2:24
3."Not Dark Yet"B. Dylan Bob Dylan 4:20
4."I'm Looking For Blue Eyes"J. Colter Jessi Colter 2:58
5."Lungs"T. Van Zandt Townes Van Zandt 2:55
6."The Color of a Cloudy Day"J. Isbell, A. Shires Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires 4:04
7."Silver Wings"M. Haggard Merle Haggard 2:35
8."Into My Arms" Nick Cave Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 4:48
9."Lithium" Kurt Cobain Nirvana 5:39
10."Is It Too Much"Allison Moorer, Shelby Lynne 4:47

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic. [19]

Charts

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