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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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#EmojiSounds 🔭

When it comes to all things astral, I look no further than #ValerieJune

A magical cover of #CosmicDancer

🎼I danced myself out of the womb…

💫 m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEpf...
December 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Ani Di Franco

m.youtube.com/watch?v=UWfo...
December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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#EmojiSounds 🔞

An epic tale of triumph of a Widow over the Devil 😳 😆

FearOfDrinking / Tim Readman x Allison Russell

🎼At 69 #TheWidow laughed
Again! Again! She cried
And the Devil said
“Well I can see
just how your husband died”

++ Kate Rusby follows!

1999 ♥️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=9MaA...
December 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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#EmojiSounds✊🏽

In tribute to #AllisonRussell returning to #Hadestown today ♥️ 🌹 ♥️

One the great Anais Mitchell resistance songs with that chilling twist at the end

The amazing Patrick Page & OG cast

🎼Why do We Build the Wall?
We build the wall to keep us free…

🌹 m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1VD...
December 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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EMEL also included bell hooks in her montage of inspirational women at her recent show 🖤 ❤️

Connections 💯🔗
December 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Remembering bell hooks who passed OTD 2021

#AllisonRussell posted a tribute poem for bell hooks, including this passage…

still
I will meet you in the pages of your books
your work
endures
transforms
for each new mind
That inhabits it
December 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Great to hear!

I can’t imagine there was only one song at her wedding, but she definitely said this song was played & can see why ♥️
December 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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#EmojiSounds ⏳

#FunFacts ❤️ #AllisonRussell

Q. The first album AR ever bought?
Q. The artist who inspired her to whistle?
Q. Her wedding song?

A. #TajMahal
A. #TajMahal
A. #TajMahal

🎼Just want u to go w/ me thru #time
Every step of the way
#FartherOnDownTheRoad

🖤 m.youtube.com/watch?v=uVuM...
December 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#EmojiSounds 📕

#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 Mabel Mercer was the singer’s singer. A famous cabaret performer & inspiration to voices from Holiday to Sinatra

🎼As Juliet said in her Romeo’s ear
“Romeo, it’s time to face the facts, my dear”
It was #JustOneOfThoseThings

22:15~
🖤 m.youtube.com/watch?v=iRde...
December 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#RedDirtGirl

🎼She tried hard to ❤️ him but it just didn’t take
Just another way for a 💔 to break
So she learnt to bend…

One thing they don’t tell u bout the blues when you got’em
You keep on fallin & there ain’t no bottom
& there ain’t no end…
At least not for Lillian

youtube.com/clip/Ugkx2qE...
December 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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#EmojiSounds 🩸

#NinaSimone I Ain’t Got No, I’ve Got Life

🎼got my liver, got my blood
I’ve got my life
I’ve got my freedom
I’ve got life

m.youtube.com/watch?v=L5jI...
December 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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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
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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
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#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
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💥 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
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#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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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#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
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#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
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I have a treat for you tomorrow, Simon, from the old days that I discovered yesterday … 🤔
November 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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#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