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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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Continuing our tour of amazing under the radar 🎶 here’s Rhiannon Giddens w/ her sister Lalenja Harrington. Sibling harmony is special

RG’s partner is fellow musician Francesco Turissi & just got tix for their May🇬🇧show today 😊

JustOneMoreDay LIVE

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January 21, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Super excited to see Kaia Kater’s 🇬🇧tour on Friday♥️

#FunFact it was Kaia’s mama who helped Allison Russell apply for a 🇨🇦writing grant in 2019 🔗

That grant helped make the recording of her debut solo album OutsideChild possible 🍁

#NinePin LIVE

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Kaia Kater: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
March 13, 2019 | Bob Boilen -- The expectation upon seeing a banjo hanging is one of rollicking rowdiness, but when Kaia Kater began to strum her five-string, the mood in the office turned plaintive…
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January 20, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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On #MLKDay here’s Nina Simone performing a song w/by her bassist Gene Taylor shortly after hearing the news. In a busy world, it still stops me in my tracks

Why?
The King of Love is Dead

🎶 w/ her daughter Lisa Simone to follow in the reply

LIVE
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January 19, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Another I found thru Allison Russell’s playlist, Jan is amazing Indigenous 🇨🇦 artist Aysanabee’s b’day month 🎉

Orig called Evan Pang to try to avoid bigotry, Aysanabee reclaimed his grandfather’s name

His grandpa’s voice ft in this 🔥song

#Nomads

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January 18, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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Another I found thru Allison Russell’s playlist, Jan is amazing Indigenous 🇨🇦 artist Aysanabee’s b’day month 🎉

Orig called Evan Pang to try to avoid bigotry, Aysanabee reclaimed his grandfather’s name

His grandpa’s voice ft in this 🔥song

#Nomads

m.youtube.com/watch?v=wBr4...
January 18, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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All My Tears (be washed away)

Julie Miller wrote this gorgeous song. Here she is on harmonies w/ her partner Buddy Miller on 🎸 & EmmyLou Harris on lead vocals

Allison Russell also covered this song in her PoGirl days. 🔗 to follow in reply

LIVE 🕊️
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January 17, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Here’s Allison Russell’s Womanica podcast on Ethel Waters 🌈 🎵

Some of her firsts as a 🖤woman:

1️⃣ to perform StLouisBlues & StormyMonday
1️⃣to star in integrated Broadway (cast by Irving Berlin)
1️⃣ to star in own TV show
1️⃣to sing on 📻
1️⃣ nom Emmy award

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January 17, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Here’s Allison Russell’s Womanica podcast on Ethel Waters 🌈 🎵

Some of her firsts as a 🖤woman:

1️⃣ to perform StLouisBlues & StormyMonday
1️⃣to star in integrated Broadway (cast by Irving Berlin)
1️⃣ to star in own TV show
1️⃣to sing on 📻
1️⃣ nom Emmy award
Musicians: Ethel Waters by Womanica
Musicians: Ethel Waters from Womanica on Podchaser, aired Wednesday, 23rd February 2022. Ethel Waters (1896-1977) was a singer and actress who made a career moving from vaudeville and honky-tonk to…
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January 17, 2026 at 10:43 AM
I was first introduced to Ethel Waters by Rhiannon Giddens singing her Under A Harlem Moon & explaining how EW changed the lyrics

RG ✍🏽 She owns every aspect of being a Black person. I get goose bumps every time I sing that song

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Ethel Waters - Underneath the Harlem Moon (1933)
Ethel Waters performing Underneath the Harlem Moon (1933)
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January 16, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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Ethel Waters is the great aunt of singer/ songwriter Crystal Waters of Gypsy Woman (she’s homeless) fame

Ethel rose out of poverty & abuse to become & pioneering singer & actress - the first Black woman to have her own TV show & be nom for an Emmy

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January 16, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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He’s a one man monument to the heart and soul of American music. Pianist, singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, and cultural catalyst Allen Toussaint would be 88 today. His music is as alive as ever. #musicsky youtu.be/2TfVbFiDnlE?...
Brickyard Blues
YouTube video by Allen Toussaint - Topic
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January 14, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Anais Mitchell on Nic Jones

🗣️ His guitar playing feels so wide open, it sort of wraps you up in a cloak, telling other people’s stories but putting his ♥️ so squarely in the middle

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January 15, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 we played at one of Jimmy LaFave’s final shows … that was the most spiritual, communal experience I’ve ever been part of

This 🎥 is around then. Jimmy x Goodnight Irene & his son / community. So emotional & beautiful

🌺 💔 🎵
Final words to his fans | Jimmy LaFave † May 23 2017 | 'Goodnight, Irene' (trad.)
May 19 2017, Paramount Theatre, Austin | 'Jimmy LaFave's Songwriter Revue' | Jimmy LaFave's final words and singing onstage, after being honored for almost 4 hours by his fellow-songwriters.…
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January 15, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I was going to share this Jimmy LaFave song, Walk Away Renée

Accordingly to legend, w/ by the Left Banke’s 🎹 player about the then-girlfriend of the bass player (who later went on to be a singer / voice coach)

Jimmy’s version takes it to a new level
Walk Away Renée
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Walk Away Renée · Jimmy LaFave Austin Skyline ℗ 1992 Music Road Records Released on: 2009-10-20 Auto-generated by YouTube.
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January 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 we played at one of Jimmy LaFave’s final shows … that was the most spiritual, communal experience I’ve ever been part of

This 🎥 is around then. Jimmy x Goodnight Irene & his son / community. So emotional & beautiful

🌺 💔 🎵
Final words to his fans | Jimmy LaFave † May 23 2017 | 'Goodnight, Irene' (trad.)
May 19 2017, Paramount Theatre, Austin | 'Jimmy LaFave's Songwriter Revue' | Jimmy LaFave's final words and singing onstage, after being honored for almost 4 hours by his fellow-songwriters.…
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January 15, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Rhiannon Giddens once posted on the topic of great but overlooked artists “Tuck & Patti Take My Breath Away!”

Husb & wife duo, Tuck Andress x Patti Cathcart are a magical combination. Forever grateful for the comfort & beauty of their 🎶

🖤 ❤️
Tuck & Patti - You Take My Breath Away
Tuck & Patti - You Take My Breath Away
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January 14, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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The #JoeHenry / Madonna’s brother in law 🔗 already been done, so here’s in tribute to Joe’s son Levon - an accomplished 🎷player

Joe has produced some amazing artists, incl #BirdsOfChicago Real Midnight - here’s rare clip w/ Levon on 🎷

LIVE 2017
Birds Of Chicago & Levon Henry "Real Midnight" (Live @ Mercury Lounge, New York City, New York)
Birds Of Chicago link up with fellow musician Levon Henry to give an excellent performance of their melody "Real Midnight". Live @ the Mercury Lounge in New York City.
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January 13, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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#MusicChallenge 🎶

Day 14
A song about self discovery

When an essential part of self discovery is self reclamation from trauma

Allison Russell - 4th Day Prayer

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Allison Russell - 4th Day Prayer (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Allison Russell
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January 13, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Belated HBD to Nic Jones, b. 9 Jan 1947

NJ suffered a serious car accident aged 35 but c30 yrs later returned to perform alongside his son Joe

#MasterKilby

🎼I gave her some kisses
Down by the seashore
& still she lay asking
Lay asking for more
Master Kilby
Provided to YouTube by IIP-DDS Master Kilby · Nic Jones Game Set Match ℗ Topic Records Released on: 2016-12-29 Music Publisher: Copyright Control Composer, Lyricist: Flood Peter Quentin…
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January 12, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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Belated HBD to Nic Jones, b. 9 Jan 1947

NJ suffered a serious car accident aged 35 but c30 yrs later returned to perform alongside his son Joe

#MasterKilby

🎼I gave her some kisses
Down by the seashore
& still she lay asking
Lay asking for more
Master Kilby
Provided to YouTube by IIP-DDS Master Kilby · Nic Jones Game Set Match ℗ Topic Records Released on: 2016-12-29 Music Publisher: Copyright Control Composer, Lyricist: Flood Peter Quentin…
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January 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Happy BD EMEL Mathlouthi! 🎉

#EMEL’s album MRA (Woman in Arabic) is the first album to be entirely made by women, fr artists to sleeve design

Standing w/ 🇮🇷 / 🌍 protests, here’s her🔥 collab w/ French-Persian #BarbaraPravi
Leve-Toi (Stand Up)

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January 11, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Continuing our tour of hidden 💎 here’s one of the very first #BirdsOfChicago performances of Child’sGame / Kinderspel

I’m in ♥️ with this 🎶

#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 JT Nero wrote this [just] before he knew he was going to be a dad

2013 LIVE in Eindhoven
Kinderspel (Child's game)
Birds of Chicago playing a new song called 'Kinderspel'. March 25 2013 Meneer Frits, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Allison russell: vocals JT Nero: guitar, vocals Peter Mulvey: guitar, vocals Bart de…
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January 10, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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HBD Valerie June! 🪄 🎉

Here’s Valerie x Carla Thomas #CallMeAFool

The living Queen of the Memphis Sound, Carla w/ her father Rufus were pioneers of the Atlantic / Stax label sound

This 🎥 of VJ w/ Carla in the studio at 79yo is just so joy-joyful

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January 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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Aunt Molly Jackson x Roll On Buddy

I found this album in my dad’s old record collection over Xmas

AMJ was a singer / activist arising out of the Kentucky coal mine families & poverty of the Harlan County strikes

New to me so sharing her spirit

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January 9, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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Aunt Molly Jackson x Roll On Buddy

I found this album in my dad’s old record collection over Xmas

AMJ was a singer / activist arising out of the Kentucky coal mine families & poverty of the Harlan County strikes

New to me so sharing her spirit

m.youtube.com/watch?v=db_E...
January 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM