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

 * Jay Bennett - acoustic guitar, mellotron, piano
 * Richard Bennett - acoustic guitar
 * Chris Carmichael - fiddle
 * Chad Cromwell - drums
 * Eric Darken - percussion
 * Kenny Greenberg - 12-string acoustic guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
 * Jim Hoke - harmonica
 * Allison Moorer - acoustic guitar, lead vocals
 * Louis Dean Nunley - background vocals
 * Russ Pahl - pedal steel guitar
 * Rick Plant - banjo, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
 * Michael Rhodes - bass guitar, upright bass
 * Rick Schell - background vocals
 * Joe Spivey - fiddle
 * Harry Stinson - background vocals
 * Marty Stuart - mandolin
 * Kris Wilkinson - string arrangements, conductor