Personnel includes: Allison Moorer (vocals, acoustic guitar); Rob McNelley, (acoustic & electric guitars); Michael Noble (acoustic guitar, banjo, dobro); Jay Bennet, R.S. Field, David Griss (electric guitar); Chris Carmichael (violin); Jim Hoke (clarinet, tenor & baritone saxophones); Billy Huber (euphonium); Neil Rosengarden (French horn); Michael Webb (Wurlitzer piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards); Russ Pahl, Allison Presswood (bass); Greg Morrow (drums, percussion); Rick Schell (percussion, background vocals); Manfred Jerome (percussion); Yvonne Hodges, Kim Morrison (background vocals).

Don't tell anybody, but tasteful country artiste Allison Moorer is in fact the younger sister of pop crossover manque Shelby Lynne. Moorer's PR downplays the connection, presumably to enable her work (quite rightly) to stand on its own merits, but knowing that branch of the family tree makes it all the more impressive to note how Moorer steadfastly refuses to dilute her music with pop trappings in a grab for the mainstream-appeal brass ring. Instead, MISS FORTUNE is full of the kind of quietly sophisticated songwriting and humbly elegant arrangements that wouldn't have sounded out of place in Nashville's late-'60s radio heyday. All this would be for naught, of course, were it not for the communicative powers of Moorer's voice, flexible enough to bend any melody to its will, but worldly wise enough to avoid bravura displays in favor of straightforward storytelling and unpretentious emoting. That's what country is supposed to be all about.

Rolling Stone (9/5/02, p.74) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...She has matured into a slick Seventies style of singer-songwriter soft rock....If there's a more soulful country singer than Moorer on the current scene, she's doing a damn good job of keeping herself hidden..."

Q (8/02, p.130) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...That gloriously lusty voice is here, as are some tastily organic coountry-soul arrangements..."

Uncut (9/02, p.114) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...finds her moving delightfully nearer the terrain occupied by sister Shelby Lynne."