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Unofficial page of quotes, lyrics & music to spread the inspiration of Allison Russell & intersectional artists

#outsidechild #thereturner #antibigotry #empathyisasuperpower #rainbowcoalition
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We are not alone
We are not what we’ve lost
We are more than the sum of our scars
We are the dust of the ✨
The bones of the 🌍
The breath of the void
The arc of art
The expanse of our imaginations.
And we are the love in our ♥️
And we are a beloved community
And we lift each other up
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Day 5 🎺

Dolly Jones - I May Be Wrong

The first female trumpeter to record a jazz record (1926). Taught by her mother—also a trumpet player, Dolly Jones worked with Josephine Baker and Ma Rainey, and here is featured in Oscar Michaux’s film SWING!
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Dolly Jones (trumpet) - "I May Be Wrong" (1938)
YouTube video by vintage video clips
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December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
#EmojiSounds 🎺

#KateRusby “Colliery brass band 🎵 You hear it & it’s full of tragedy & pride & strength & esp here it’s somehow born into you, this heart-wrenching sound”

When Kate hits that last note & the trumpet sounds…

My Young Man
Kate Rusby ~ My Young Man (full)
From documentary Kate Rusby: My Music With a quintet from the Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band. Lyrics: My young man wears a frown With his eyes all closed and his head bowed down My young man…
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December 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
#EmojiSounds 💰

Now, would you pay 18 pence for an old chemise at the #CoalQuayMarket?

2 mins of sound advice from #AllisonRussell x Tim Readman / Fear of Drinking 😊 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇮🇪

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The Coal Quay Market Song
Provided to YouTube by CDBaby The Coal Quay Market Song · Tim Readman and Fear of Drinking In Black & White ℗ 1999 Tim Readman Released on: 1999-01-01 Auto-generated by YouTube.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Allison Russell x Ahya Simone (harp) #Transa #AnyOtherWay #JackieShane NYC 12/6

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December 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
#EmojiSounds

#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 #Sade’s voice gives me strength & hope

I remember how electrified I was the 1st time I heard her - a mixed heritage woman like me - not fitting easily into any box - transcending them all

A living, breathing goddess

#ByYourSide

🫂 m.youtube.com/watch?v=C8QJ...
December 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Tim Readman “We ended up performing & recording together as a duo and as the band Fear of Drinking…

Barrett’s Privateers was one of our crowd pleasers & a fav of Allison’s & found its way onto the album by virtue of the manic energy & audience participation” ♥️ 🎶
December 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Tim Readman “I met Allison Russell in Vancouver in 1998 just after she’d moved here from her native Montreal

It was in the SouthHill Candy Store, a small venue where her Aunt Janet often performed

She joined her aunt for a couple of songs & blew my mind w/ the power & emotion of her singing
December 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#EmojiSounds 🇯🇲

👋 Hands up who wants to hear #AllisonRussell lead us all in a classic sea shanty?

🔥 A young Allison x Tim Readman / Fear of Drinking
Vancouver, 1998 🇨🇦

#BarrettsPrivateers

🎼We were 91 days to Montego Bay

LIVE (🧵 to follow)
⚓️https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OdFY6Xjh4wU
December 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#EmojiSounds ⚖️

In honour of our host, am starting this challenge in a majestic Paris church 🇫🇷

#EMEL is one of the great voices for justice over oppression in the world atm

Words of hope to Persian melody & a voice that is beauty in any language #Holm / Dream

LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZW8...
November 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
#MusicInMusic

#WeRaiseOurCups to🔥 host @bwodotbc.bsky.social 🥂

#AllisonRussell returns to Hadestown as Persephone in Dec 🌹

An amazing story as 6yrs earlier, AR had written her own song Persephone for her first ❤️ who saved her

🎼for the ones who 🎶in the dead of night…
To #Orpheus
& all of us
November 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
#MusicInMusic

#BirdsOfChicago #AmericanFlowers

#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 Thanks for reminding us that we’re better than we’ve been, JT ♥️

🎼I was sipping red cream soda
I was listening to Johnny Prine

LIVE Chicago 2025, a beautiful 🎵
📷 credit: Shauna Ireland 🙏🏽

🌺 🕊️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=VcRX...
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
#MusicInMusic

#AndyWhite’s tribute to touring artists

#56 reasons (why your concert will be empty tonight)

Ft Ani, Radiohead, Bruce, Corrs, U2, Jimi & Nirvana

🎼46 The 🇮🇪 singer-songwriter is dead
47 the N Irish 🎼songwriter is still alive (but not very popular)

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November 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#MusicInMusic

Eddie Balchowski d. OTD 1989

The moving story of the one-armed pianist &🇪🇸 Civil War veteran, immortalised by the stories of #UtahPhillips & woven w/ the magic of #AniDiFranco🎵

🎼I wrote him his death song
About a week later I got a call from Eddie…

m.youtube.com/watch?v=VcCr...
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 Perhaps #MemphisMinnie’s greatest claim to fame is that she was the first known person, male or female, to play the electric guitar 🎸 🖤 🎵

#MusicInMusic 👇
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
#MusicInMusic

#AllisonRussell ✍🏽Lizzie “Kid” Douglas aka #MemphisMinnie (1897-1973) was the Queen of Country Blues

Her strong voice & masterful fingerpicking 🎸defied gender & genre

& laid the foundation for Chicago blues, R&B & RocknRoll

#MeAndMyChauffeurBlues

🖤 m.youtube.com/watch?v=KiRo...
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#MusicInMusic

I think of this #BeGoodTanyas 🎶 as the 🪕 playing cousin of The Smiths How Soon Is Now?

🎼Promise we won’t go into a nightclub
I really think that it’s obscene
What kind of people go to meet people
In a place they can’t be heard or seen?

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light enough to travel
music
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November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#MusicInMusic

Frank Turner’s 🎸tribute

🎼#SisterRosetta
Godmother of RocknRoll
The original sister of soul
All our🎵was in her

NYC it was 1938
The 📻 couldn’t wait for Rosetta to rock it
&little Elvis, Chuck Jonny at🏠
Heard her on the gramophone
&wouldn’t forget it

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jrP4...
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
#ThrowbackThursday on a Sunday 😊

Just found a LIVE version on my phone of #CoalMinersDaughter, Loretta Lynn tribute by
#AllisonRussell #EllesBailey & #MikoMarks
Americana UK Awards 2023 🏆

Not seen this posted before so made my first ever AR montage - enjoy!

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Allison Russell x Coal Miner’s Daughter LIVE - Elles Bailey, Miko Marks & Allison Russell
Americana UK Awards, Loretta Lynn tribute from January 2023 #EllesBailey #MikoMarks #AllisonRussell​⁠ @AllisonRussell. @ellesbailey @mikomarksmusic
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November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#MusicInMusic

Still under the radar but every time I hear an #IrisDement 🎶 I’m amazed

🎼#SweetIsTheMelody so hard to come by
It’s so hard to make every #note bend just right

U lay down the hours & leave not one trace
But a 🎶 for the 💃 is there in its place

🎼 m.youtube.com/watch?v=9g3X...
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#EMEL Mathlouthi 14 November, London 🇬🇧

Beautiful a capella encore of traditional Palestinian song 🎶

“This song is for all the wrongly & unjustified imprisoned free spirits”
November 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#MusicInMusic

Just back from seeing the amazing #HiromiUehara tonight in 🇬🇧 🎹 🎵

Hiromi x Gershwin x I’ve Got Rhythm

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November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
In total, 4️⃣8️⃣women (plus 3 chosen brothers) from over 2️⃣0️⃣countries collaborated to make these two 🔥 albums

1️⃣@mathlouthiEmel #MRA (“woman” in Arabic) is the 1st album made ENTIRELY by women, from artists to engineers to album sleeve

#empathy #music #community

#EMEL #AllisonRussell 💃 🌹
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#MusicInMusic

#RayCharles x #HoagyCarmichael

🎼Georgia, Georgia
No peace, no peace I find
Just an old sweet #song
Keeps #GeorgiaOnMyMind

RC was fined for refusing to play whites-only shows in his home state in 60s

In 1979, it became Georgia’s official song 🖤

LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=Thls...
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#MusicInMusic

#LhasaDeSela #LaFrontera 4 all those crossing The Border

🎼Sometimes I #dance, sometimes nothing

Today I cross the border
Under the sky
Under the sky
The wind is the one sending me
Under the steel sky
I am the black dot that walks
On the shores of luck

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5kJ_...
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
#MusicInMusic

Remembering Gordon Lightfoot b. OTD 1938

#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 Our iconic king of poetry & truth-telling…Gordon was a beacon of storytelling, even when it was uncomfortable

🎼The church bells they chimed 29 times
For each man on the #EdmundFitzgerald

🍁 m.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzT...
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM