Allison Moorer wrote a book about her son’s autism. His melodies also inspired her new music.
“I don’t know that I would ever come up with [that melody],” Moorer says. “That would probably never come to me because that particular melody is rooted in something that is not in me. Maybe it has something to do with the music that John Henry has been exposed to.” Moorer cites John Henry’s New York City birthplace and his musical family — John Henry’s father, Steve Earle, and stepfather Hayes Carll are both musicians, as is his aunt, the singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne.
“I wrestled with all of that. I still do,” she says. “I know that there is a population out there that is very ready to condemn me for what I did. And I completely understand it. There are people [within the special-needs community] who advocate for people with autism, who can’t necessarily communicate with words. That group of people would say, ‘Well, you have no right to do that,’ which I totally get. But as a parent I have a different take on that.
“He was six or seven years old before I started to go, ‘Wait a minute. I’m trying to fix this. I’m trying to change who he clearly is,’” she says. “That’s probably not the best, most painless way to go through this experience.
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