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MUSIC

Not Dark Yet

Even though they are sisters working in the same field, Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer have always kept their distance from each other artistically. It's an understandable decision, but they sound so stunning together on their first joint project Not Dark Yet that you cannot help but wonder what took so long. Is It Too Much, co-written by the sisters, is wrenchingly beautiful as Lynne and Moorer sing separately and together about sharing emotional burdens.

Though that's the only original on the album, their harmonies turn Nick Cave's Into My Arms into something completely new, making it sound like a more reverent prayer than the original.

Lynne and Moorer have made more than their share of great records separately, but their collaboration on Not Dark Yet takes them to a new artistic level.