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

#outsidechild #thereturner #antibigotry #empathyisasuperpower #rainbowcoalition
Saw the incredible 🇨🇦 soprano / conductor #BarbaraHannigan y/day & was blown away 🥰

Here’s an amazing LIVE performance (not to mention stage entrance!) x Simon Rattle from Le Grande Macabre

(+ Gershwin to follow 😊)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Tv...
December 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The incroyable Barbara Hannigan conducting/ transforming & singing Gershwin’s Embraceable You & I Got Rhythm 🔥 🇨🇦 🎵

LIVE in 🇫🇷

m.youtube.com/watch?v=KXNK...
December 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#EmojiSounds

When you 🎵 a 100mph tongue twister song so fast you fall into an Irish accent… 😆

Allison Russell x Tim Readman / Fear of Drinking

🎼Mary Mac’s mother’s making Mary Mac marry me My mother’s making me marry Mary Mac…

💍 another LIVE 💎 from 1999
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WNh4...
December 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
💥 NEW MUSIC ALERT 💥

#PeteMuller x #AllisonRussell #OneLastDance

Pete Muller “Allison Russell is a gem, & I’m deeply honoured to have her as a collaborator”

The stellar new song from his new album 💫

💃 m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyin...
December 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
#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 10:09 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 10:08 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
I have a treat for you tomorrow, Simon, from the old days that I discovered yesterday … 🤔
November 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#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
Allison Russell ✍🏽 on #JTNero & the making of her 1st album Outside Child

He was like “you’re going to slay those demons & I’m gonna stand behind you to catch any of the ones that get by”

He helped me excavate the songs & get thru it & scraped me off the floor when I was having a hard time

🫂 ♥️ 🎵 👏
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 AM
#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)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuvj...
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
Thought you’d like this one!

A big influence on Allison in her early days of course after she’d moved across country from Montreal to Vancouver 🇨🇦 Trish Klein helped her learn to play the 🪕 🎵
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I was so lucky 🍀 she’d just played Kelmti Horra ( 🔥 below) & I’d left my phone on record in pocket by mistake…

which is why the sound isn’t great but the crowd was so hushed when she sang it…it was beautiful to see some people mouthing the words w/ love in their eyes to a song I never knew
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 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
#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
1 min sound / montage clip of Hiromi x Blackbird from the encore last night in London 🎹
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM