ALLISON RUSSELL 'OUTSIDE CHILD' CD
3 x GRAMMY NOMINATEDï»ż ALBUM!
Outside Child, says Russell âis about resilience, survival, transcendence, the redemptive power of art, community, connection, and chosen family.â Singing about this on âNightflyer,â Russell ponders the healing power of motherhood, using the trackâs wide-open expanse to convey the strength she didnât know she had. Here, the line âI am the mother of the evening star / I am the love that conquers allâ is âthe most defiantly triumphant, hopeful line I've ever written...that's about the birth of my daughter and how that transformed me.â Though they had a fraught relationship, Russell remembers how sheâd crawl underneath the piano and listen to her own mother play. âI would hum along with her,â Russell recalls. âShe said I was humming before I could talk. I was able to feel some kind of comfort or love or connection in a way that she couldn't verbally or physically express - but I could feel in her music that there was love in her.â
In the end, Outside Child is not only a radical reclamation of a traumatic childhood and lost home, it is a lantern light for survivors of all stripes - a fervent reminder of the eleventh hour, resuscitative power of art. âAllisonâs new album, Outside Child, draws water from the dark well of a violent past,â says poet and songwriter Joe Henry.â âThe songs themselves ââthough iron-hard in their concernsââ are exultant: exercising haunted dream-like clean bedsheets snapped and hung out into broad daylight, and with the romantic poetâs lust for living and audacity of endurance.âÂ
1 Montreal
2 Nightflyer
3 Persephone
4 4th Day Prayer
5 The Runner
6 Hy-Brasil
7 The Hunters
8 All Of The Women
9 Poison Arrow
10 Little Rebirth*
11 Joyful Motherfuckers
*CD and Digital only track
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3 x GRAMMY NOMINATEDï»ż ALBUM!
Outside Child, says Russell âis about resilience, survival, transcendence, the redemptive power of art, community, connection, and chosen family.â Singing about this on âNightflyer,â Russell ponders the healing power of motherhood, using the trackâs wide-open expanse to convey the strength she didnât know she had. Here, the line âI am the mother of the evening star / I am the love that conquers allâ is âthe most defiantly triumphant, hopeful line I've ever written...that's about the birth of my daughter and how that transformed me.â Though they had a fraught relationship, Russell remembers how sheâd crawl underneath the piano and listen to her own mother play. âI would hum along with her,â Russell recalls. âShe said I was humming before I could talk. I was able to feel some kind of comfort or love or connection in a way that she couldn't verbally or physically express - but I could feel in her music that there was love in her.â
In the end, Outside Child is not only a radical reclamation of a traumatic childhood and lost home, it is a lantern light for survivors of all stripes - a fervent reminder of the eleventh hour, resuscitative power of art. âAllisonâs new album, Outside Child, draws water from the dark well of a violent past,â says poet and songwriter Joe Henry.â âThe songs themselves ââthough iron-hard in their concernsââ are exultant: exercising haunted dream-like clean bedsheets snapped and hung out into broad daylight, and with the romantic poetâs lust for living and audacity of endurance.âÂ
1 Montreal
2 Nightflyer
3 Persephone
4 4th Day Prayer
5 The Runner
6 Hy-Brasil
7 The Hunters
8 All Of The Women
9 Poison Arrow
10 Little Rebirth*
11 Joyful Motherfuckers
*CD and Digital only track
