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The Hardest Part (Allison Moorer album)

The Hardest Part is the second album by singer/songwriter Allison Moorer. The album is a concept album about a doomed relationship produced and co-written by Moorer's then husband Doyle Lee Primm. The album is based on her parents' relationship which ended in the mid-1980s when Moorer's father murdered her mother before killing himself. She told No Depression magazine in 2000: "This record was inspired by the things I saw my mother go through. It’s not the true story, but it’s inspired by the true story."

Personnel
Allison Moorer – vocals, acoustic guitar (1, 3) • Jay Bennett – acoustic piano (2, 4, 8, 9), acoustic guitar (2), Hammond B3 organ (3, 6), Mellotron (8) • Kenny Greenberg – acoustic guitar (1, 3, 7–9), electric guitars (2–6, 8–10), acoustic 12-string guitar (4) • Rick Plant – electric guitars (3, 9), acoustic guitar (10) • Buddy Miller – acoustic guitar (4), electric guitars (6) • Richard Bennett – acoustic guitar (7) • Rick Plant – banjo (1) • Marty Stuartmandolin (1) • Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar (2–6, 8–10) • Michael Rhodesupright bass (1), bass (2–10) • Chad Cromwell – drums • Eric Darken – percussion (2, 5, 6, 9) • Joe Spivey – fiddle (1, 6) • Chris Carmichael – fiddle (10) • Jim Hoke – harmonica (2, 7) • The Nashville String Machine – strings (3, 8, 9) • The Love Sponge Strings – string quartet (4) • Kristin Wilkinson – string arrangements and conductor (3, 4, 8, 9) • Louise Red – harmony vocals (1–4, 6, 8, 9) • Harry Stinson – harmony vocals (1), backing vocals (5) • Louis Nunley – backing vocals (3) • Dennis Wilson – backing vocals (3) • Rick Schell – backing vocals (5), harmony vocals (6) • Lonesome Bob – vocals (9) Production Tony Brown – executive producer • Kenny Greenberg – producer • Allison Moorer – co-producer • Doyle Primm – co-producer • Don Smith – engineer (1–6, 8–10) • Peter Coleman – overdub recording, string recording (3, 4, 8, 9), engineer (7) • James Bauer – assistant engineer • Nathan Mann – assistant engineer • Greg Parker – assistant engineer • John Saylor – assistant engineer • Justin Niebank – mixing at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee) • Ken Love – mastering at MasterMix (Nashville, Tennessee) • Kate Garner – photography • Beth Middleworth – design • T.K. Kimbrell for Two Artist Management – management ==Chart performance==
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