Getting Somewhere

Getting Somewhere is the fifth studio album by singer/songwriter Allison Moorer. The album was produced by Moorer's new husband and fellow singer/songwriter Steve Earle and recorded in Nashville. Written on the road while touring with Earle, it saw her embrace a more pop sound and became her first album where the majority of songs were written solely by Moorer. She told PopMatters in 2004: "Some of the records I’ve made have had a lot of cooks, for lack of a better word. This one basically was just me and Steve, and I had written all the songs while he was around. We were on the road together, and so he had a ringside seat for the whole writing of it. So when we went in to make the record in December, it was kind of just a given what we were going to do."^[3]

Getting Somewhere
Studio album by Allison Moorer
Released	June 13, 2006
Studio	Room & Board Recording (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country, pop
Length	30:58
Label	Sugar Hill Records
Producer	Steve Earle
Allison Moorer chronology
The Duel (2004) Getting Somewhere (2006) Mockingbird (2008)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	73/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Allison Moorer unless otherwise noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Work to Do"		2:51
2.	"You'll Never Know"		2:32
3.	"Hallelujah"		3:25
4.	"Fairweather"	Allison Moorer; Steve Earle	3:29
5.	"New Years Day"		2:58
6.	"How She Does It"		2:59
7.	"Where You Are"		2:44
8.	"Take It So Hard"		3:33
9.	"If It's Just for Today"		3:40
10.	"Getting Somewhere"		2:47

Personnel

• Allison Moorer – vocals, backing vocals (1, 2, 7-10), guitars (1, 2, 4-6, 8-10), tambourine (1, 2, 7-10)
• Steve Earle – guitars (1, 7), Moog synthesizer (4), feedback guitar (8), vocals (9)
• Doug Lancio – guitars
• Brad Jones – bass
• Brady Blade – drums
• Chris Carmichael – strings (7), string arrangements (7)
• Jim Hoke – horns (9), horn arrangements (9)

Production

• Steve Earle – producer
• Ray Kennedy – recording, mixing
• Patrick Earle – recording assistant, mix assistant
• Jim DeMain – mastering at Yes Master (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Cole Gerst – design, illustrations
• Gabrielle Revere – photography