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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 3h

#ClocktoberMusic 🕰️ We’ve just got back from a 12+ hour marathon at the hospital for my lovely wife’s biopsy🤞(NHS, arigatou) Sandy Denny wrote this at 19yo. Timeless. 🎼 Who knows how my love grows? And Who Knows Where The Time Goes? 1973 solo version m.youtube.com/watch?v=jsqz...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ place you’ve not been / want to go Allison Russell ✍🏽 I think Lhasa de Sela is one of the greatest artists that 🇨🇦 has ever produced This is Lhasa’s 🎶 La Frontera - for all those crossing the border to a new place 🕊️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=rb7h...

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Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Hope Is the Thing with Feathers” with my Silkroad Ensemble family 💜

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ Y / NYC The Yellow Door is Montreal’s longest running folk club. Allison Russell saw her first show there - Rufus Wainwright RW x Martha x Anna McGarrigle x Mendocino 🎼Never had the blues from whence I came But in NY State I caught ‘em m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z85...

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Live Music Canada 🇨🇦 @livemusiccda.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Allison rocks. 🇨🇦

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ X💥NEW MUSIC ALERT💥 Gord Downie of 🇨🇦 The Tragically Hip passed to that unknown place Oct-2017. A new musical is released in tribute Allison Russell 🎶 on the OG cast recording of the iconic Wheat Kings 🎼 Wait & see what tomorrow brings m.youtube.com/watch?v=9B1x...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🎶 Allison Russell ft Devon Gilfillian x Shahrzad Ghaffari 🎨 My Love Is A Golden Lion Celebrating their amazing Montreal willow tree 🔗(see prev post) SG moved the golden female ☀️to the centre of the male lion face in spirit of women’s uprising in 🇮🇷 m.youtube.com/watch?v=QYcL...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ For those who ❤️ connections as much as me, I discovered s/thing amazing today The person who saved the fallen willow tree in Allison Russell’s song below from being taken away forever wasn’t just anybody - she’s 🍁 based Iranian artist Shahrzad Ghaffari ⬇️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=LrOk...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ Allison Russell x 4thDayPrayer 🍁 🎼 I was the Queen of Westmount Park It was all mine after dark Old Willow Tree it was my throne A short 🧵on amazing backstory of that 🌳, how it stood for 150yrs, fell in a storm & then experienced “a little rebirth” 🌱 🌍 🍁 🎶

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ismua ᴮˡᵘᵉˢᵏʸ ᴱˡᵈᵉʳ📯 🌈⛵💜 @ismua.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ 🗺️ #MusicChallenge 🎶 𝐀𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐁𝐂 Day 2️⃣2️⃣: S 🗣 Miriam Makeba & Hugh Masekela 🔊 Soweto Blues

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Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela - Soweto Blues (Live 1988)

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ S Allison Russell’s grandma was 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 fr Saskatchewan AR ✍🏽 She was my hero & had a wealth of old 🎶 & lullabies from the “old country”…but was taken by Alzheimer’s She didn’t know who we were, but when I sang those 🎶 she sang w/ me 2:48~ #Isobel x Mandy Fer m.youtube.com/watch?v=DanQ...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ R Preparing my Montreal trip itinerary w/ this💎 🎼 Now I’m running down la Rue St Paul… I’ll go see #Persephone 🌺 Dec21 LIVE Allison Russell ft the future 2022, 2023 AND 2026 Instrumentalists Of The Year 🏆 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 Larissa Maestro🎻 Sista Strings🎻 Mandy Fer🎸 m.youtube.com/watch?v=e3yz...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ Q Allison Russell ✍🏽 I was lucky to grow up in Montreal, Quebec, a city imbued in 🖼️ & 🎶 I remember hearing Oscar Peterson play for free in the park. I didn’t know that was special. I just knew that it inhabited me & consumed me completely Cakewalk LIVE 🎹 m.youtube.com/watch?v=rZbS...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ Free choice Wilbraham Road platform, Manchester 1964 Sister Rosetta Tharpe x Didn’t It Rain Allison Russell ✍🏽 She invented modern guitar playing w/ the first use of distortion. That’s why we call her The Mother of Rock N Roll Full 🎥 13:00~ m.youtube.com/watch?v=yds7...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Rhiannon Giddens 🎶 x Emily Dickinson ✍🏽 The title track from Rhiannon’s new album 🎼 Hope is a Thing With Feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all m.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfm...

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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#MusicChallenge #CaptnCanadasMusicMonth #MusicSky Day 17: Feels like a fresh start Persephone – Allison Russell A deeply personal story of abuse, escape and salvation

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Allison Russell - Persephone (Live at Farm Aid 2021)

YouTube video by Farm Aid

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ P EMEL x Naci en Palestina (born in Palestine) 🇹🇳 artist EMEL is one of the great voices of courage, justice, empathy & heartbreak This LIVE version is 8yrs old. You don’t need to understand a word to feel “I share your pain” m.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFN...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🏆 INSTRUMENTALIST OF THE YEAR 🏆 So excited for Mandy Fer 🏆 at the Americana Awards 👏🏽 Mandy’s a 🔥 guitarist & human in her band Sway Wild (w/ Dave McGraw) & beyond Here she is shredding 🎸 w/ Allison Russell, Joy Clark & the 🌈 Coalition 🥰 🎸 m.youtube.com/watch?v=_tzG...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ O Me: Place names starting w/ O? HC Jr: Orton. It’s just a small place. Prob won’t help Me:💡 Norwich’s Beth Orton 💛 🎼 Running down a #CentralReservation in last night’s red dress & I can still smell u on my fingers & taste u on my breath m.youtube.com/watch?v=vUVa...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ N One of the great things about Allison Russell’s Rainbow Coalition is that you get to discover artists like Sista Strings AND see them bloom thereafter New Orleans’ Joy Clark is 🎶joy. Now on AniDiFranco’s label, here’s her grandma tribute Lesson x AR LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=yaHC...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ N One of the great things about Allison Russell’s Rainbow Coalition is u get to discover new artists like Sista Strings AND see them bloom thereafter New Orleans’ Joy Clark is 🎶 joy. Now on AniDiFranco’s label, here’s her tribute to g/ma Lesson (LIVE x AR) m.youtube.com/watch?v=yaHC...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just how gorgeous is the packaging and artwork for Allison Russell’s new album? ✨ ✨✨✨✨

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ M It takes a lot for me not to pick Allison Russell’s hometown of Montreal on M day, but this is Bonnie Raitt x Brandi Carlile we’re talking about… ♥️ Angel From Montgomery (J Prine) LIVE at ACL 2026 Montgomery was Hank Williams hometown. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1T_...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Allison Russell’s new album In The Hour of Chaos took a little longer than that to reach me here in 🇬🇧 …but two months later it’s here at last! Nothing beats a late bloomer 🌺 That unboxing moment 🤩

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ L Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬 - home of Fela Kuti, King of AfroBeat, & in the words of Miles Davis a life-transforming artist 🎶 Beasts Of No Nation, 1986 w/ after FK’s release from prison 🔥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=pCpu... 🎥 ++ Doc on Fela from Allison Russell’s Good Trouble YT playlist in Reply

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G @gwill2k.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Allison Russell #LookAndSee We've made friendly acquaintance, sometimes we talk She likes the way that I smile And sing as I walk All Of The Women song.link/AOTW #musicchallenge #musicsky

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Allison Russell - All Of The Women (Lyric Video)

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Albumism @albumism.com · 08/09/2026

Allison Russell released 'The Returner' 3 years ago on September 8, 2023 | Listen to the album here: album.ink/ARTheReturner

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ K Phoebe Bridgers x Kyoto 🎼 Day off in Kyoto Got bored at the temple Looked around at the 7-Eleven… I don’t forgive you But don’t hold me to it m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw0z...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ J bonus Japanese 🎹 Hiromi Uehara x Canon in D Welcome to the sonic wonderland of Hiromi 🇯🇵 Her playful virtuosity (and big smiles) makes this such a joy 😊 Complete w/ notations such as “add an extra beat so audience stays in time” m.youtube.com/watch?v=lpc1...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ I Anoushkar Shankar (India, sitar) x Arooj Aftab (Pakistan, vocals) LIVE Udhero Na (Please Undo) One of the beautiful collabs from the Grammy 🏆 Vulture Prince The song is about that feeling when a past relationship pops back into your head m.youtube.com/watch?v=U21Q...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ J Joy Oladokun x Jordan Allison Russell ✍🏽 Joy is one of those writers who just speaks straight to the bone When u see someone standing in their full, unfiltered truth like that, it gives everyone else permission to do the same m.youtube.com/watch?v=jYhE...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As a v special treat, been able to find this 2011 🎥 of the Carolina Chocolate Drops ft Allison Russell on clarinet in their 1920s Black vaudeville attire ft Don Flemons on vocals +🪕 & Rhiannon Giddens💃 ++ interview before the 🎶 Enjoy!! 😊 m.youtube.com/watch?v=_K3q...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ H for Harlem Allison Russell collab’d w/ Carolina Choc Drops in 2011 showcasing the forgotten contribution of Black Vaudeville - inc this classic Cake Walkin’ Babies, ft Clarence Williams 🎹 Louis Armstrong 🎺Sidney Bechet clar’t 100yrs on & still🔥 🔥 🔥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZOu...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ G In Grimes Creek there’s a cabin made by folk 🎵 legend Rosalie Sorrels dad Tom Russell w/ this ✨ song as both a tribute to RS & the rare, enchanted evenings w/ food, drink & people we love that last for all time One of the great tributes m.youtube.com/results?sp=m...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ F Leyla McCalla x Fort Dimanche Fort Dimanche was an infamous state prison in Haiti used to violently suppress dissent, including journalists trying to report the truth The French lyric is, darkly, about “going to a land without hats” m.youtube.com/watch?v=IyvP...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I started this Allison Russell page 4.5yr ago on a compulsion. Her 🎵& the way her inspiration shone thru impacted me like nothing else She has an amazing gift, hard-won, of being able to imagine a better place AND shine a light on the path to get there My respect & gratitude just grows each year

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ E Elks Club, Brooklyn was where Billie Holiday cut her teeth as a jazz singer c. 100yrs ago before breaking thru in the 1930s. Imagine. As a jazz Sunday treat, here she is w/ Teddy Wilson 🎹 Coleman Hawkins 🎷 et al When You’re Smiling 😊 m.youtube.com/watch?v=LC_X...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ D The Chieftains x Carolina Chocolate Drops “Pretty Live Girl (w/ the blue dress on)” LIVE on Jools Holland, 2012 Dublin meets North Carolina and magic happens ✨ 🇮🇪 🇺🇸 m.youtube.com/watch?v=tuk-...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ Allison Russell ✍🏽 There was a pub in Montreal called Hurley’s 🇮🇪 Pub. I started playing there regularly [when I was 15] w/ an 🇮🇪 fiddler called Gerry O’Neil from County Donegal…mainly Stan Rogers tunes 🍁 🎼Ah just one time I would take the Northwest Passage… m.youtube.com/watch?v=a9-Z...

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Northwest Passage

YouTube video by Stan Rogers - Topic

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#ThrowbackThursday #WorldAtoZ C Birds of Chicago x American Flowers Love this LIVE version, delightfully w/ Allison Russell’s daughter Ida valiantly staying awake (beside her unicorn, or maybe a magic pony w/ a horn sewn on to its forehead 🌈 ) 1:28:15~ m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDO2...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ B Our Native Daughters x Barbados Rhiannon Giddens Leyla McCalla Amythyst Kiah & Allison Russell 🪕 🪕 🪕 🪕 Vocal by RG, from a still-relevant anti-slavery poem w/by William Cowper in 1788 (brought up to date by producer Dirk Powell) m.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfW...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ #MusicChallenge Alabama Shakes x I Feel Hope Coming Norah Jones has recently dropped her latest Playing Along w/ Brittany Howard (see Reply), & to get you in the mood here she is reunited w/ the Shakes from new album Must Be Dreaming♥️ 🕊️ 🎶 m.youtube.com/watch?v=qB8b...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Goodnight all, sweet dreams 😴 🫂 🥰 Brandi Carlile x I Will Always Love You LIVE Dolly Parton tribute (w/ montage) m.youtube.com/watch?v=55Bo...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Etta Baker & Cora Phillips were sisters from North Carolina. Undiscovered until in her 60s, Etta was a master Piedmont blues guitarist. She was the inspiration of Our Native Daughters song “I knew I could fly” Here’s rare footage of EB & CP, on the front porch 🎶 m.youtube.com/watch?v=fNvc...

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Etta Baker plays Crow Jane Blues

YouTube video by Paul Tyler

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Allison Russell ✍🏽 One of my earliest childhood memories is crawling underneath the 🎹 to listen to [my mum] play I would get to just listen to the music & that’s where I could hear her heart You know, that’s where I could hear her, the love that she couldn’t show 🫂 m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ypn...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

💥 NEW MUSIC ALERT 💥 It’s a joy to see this finally w/ us - the new album by Lisa Sanders has dropped ✨ ft 🎶 co-written & produced by JT Nero w/ Allison Russell on harmony vocals ♥️ Here’s the beautiful title track: Daughters of the Rising Tide m.youtube.com/watch?v=6LBF...

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Allison Russell ✍🏽 The music is the best of us I feel like music pushes against bigotry, always Music is not bigoted 🎶 🫶🏽 🫂 🥰 🌈 🎶

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Donald Teplyske- Fervor Coulee: Roots Music Opinion [he/him] @fervorcoulee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Day 1122 #recordsontheshelf #musicchallenge #vinylsky #vinyl I realized the last 3 albums ordered were done so while 'medicated.' So far, it has worked out just dandy. Allison Russell's latest- it sure sounds- and looks- great. @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social #MusicSoundsBetterWhenYou'reStoned

front cover of In the Hour of Chaos- the artist stands on a rock on a desert plain with a twirl of green fabric catching the wind

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AllisonRussellQuotes @arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Allison Russell has just posted her tribute poem plus a video montage tribute to Dolly Parton as below ⬇️ Oh Dolly… m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdmr...

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Oh Dolly

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