Allison Moorer’s son John Henry was playing in a New York City park in 2019 when he climbed an old, squeaky glider and began stomping his foot to its rhythm, then singing along. Using video of John Henry’s instinctive performance that his teacher had sent, Moorer’s longtime musical collaborator Kenny Greenberg created a loop while she crafted a hypnotic, soaring anthem to accompany it.
Those unique melodies and compelling rhythms imagined by John Henry can heard throughout “All We Have Is Now,” the first track from Moorer’s new EP Wish for You, which Greenberg produced. A slight stylistic departure from her past work with its use of found sounds and looped beats, Wish for You is a companion piece to Moorer’s second book, I Dream He Talks to Me: A Memoir of Learning How to Listen, which detailed coming to terms with John Henry’s autism. Diagnosed at 23 months old, her…
