| The Hardest Part | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Allison Moorer |
| Cover: | TheHardestPart.jpg |
| Released: | September 26, 2000 |
| Genre: | Country, Americana |
| Length: | 45:51 |
| Label: | MCA Nashville |
| Producer: | Kenny Greenberg, Doyle Lee Primm |
| Prev Title: | Alabama Song |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Next Title: | Miss Fortune |
| Next Year: | 2002 |
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.[1] The album is based on her parents' relationship which ended in the mid-1980s when Moorer's father murdered her mother before killing himself.[2] 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."[3]