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Outside Child

by Allison Russell

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Montreal 03:45
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Nightflyer 04:55
Yeah I’m a midnight rider Stone bonafide night flyer I’m an angel of the morning too The promise that the dawn will bring you I’m the melody and the space between Every note the swallow sings I’m 14 vultures circling I’m that crawling, dying thing I’m the smoke up above the trees, Good Lord The fire and the branch that’s burning, Lord Maybe you were sleeping, Lord, But Mary she’s not weeping no more, no Yeah I’m a midnight rider Stone bonafide night flyer I’m an angel of the morning too The promise that the dawn will bring you I’m the sick light of a hurricane’s eye I’m a violent lullaby I’m six fireflies, one streetlight I’m a suffocating summer night hmm mmm I’m each of his steps on the stairway I’m his shadow in the door frame I’m the tap tap of a lunar moth I’m the stale beer on his breath hmm mmm His soul is trapped in that room But I crawled back in my mother’s womb Came back out with my gold and my greens Now I see everything Now I feel everything good lord What the hell could they bring to stop me Lord? Nothing from the earth, nothing from the sea Not a God Almighty thing Yeah I’m a midnight rider Stone bonafide night flyer I’m an angel of the morning too The promise that the dawn will bring you I’m the wounded bird, I’m the screaming hawk I’m the one who can’t be counted out I’m the dove thrown into battle I can roll and shake and rattle hmmm mmm I’m the moon’s dark side, I’m the solar flare The child of the Earth, the child of the Air I am The Mother of the Evening Star I am the Love that Conquers All Yeah I’m a midnight rider Stone bonafide night flyer I’m an angel of the morning too The promise that the dawn will bring you
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Persephone 04:22
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The Runner 04:09
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Hy-Brasil 05:35
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The Hunters 05:32
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Poison Arrow 03:58
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Outside Child, says Russell “is about resilience, survival, transcendence, the redemptive power of art, community, connection, and chosen family.” Singing about this on “Nightflyer,” Russell ponders the healing power of motherhood, using the track’s wide-open expanse to convey the strength she didn’t know she had. Here, the line “I am the mother of the evening star / I am the love that conquers all” is “the most defiantly triumphant, hopeful line I've ever written...that's about the birth of my daughter and how that transformed me.” Though they had a fraught relationship, Russell remembers how she’d crawl underneath the piano and listen to her own mother play. “I would hum along with her,” Russell recalls. “She 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.”

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. “Allison’s new album, Outside Child, draws water from the dark well of a violent past,” says poet and songwriter Joe Henry.” “The songs themselves ––though iron-hard in their concerns–– are exultant: exercising haunted dream-like clean bedsheets snapped and hung out into broad daylight, and with the romantic poet’s lust for living and audacity of endurance.”

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released May 21, 2021

2021, © 2021 Birds of Chicago LLC., Under exclusive license to Fantasy Records. Distributed by Concord.

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Allison Russell Nashville, Tennessee

Montreal born Scottish Grenadian Canadian, Allison Russell, is a mother, a musician, a poet, a writer - a mixed-heritage, queer, black woman. Her winding musical path - from her first work in Canadian roots band, Po’ Girl, to Birds of Chicago, her band with her partner JT Nero to her recent collaborations like Our Native Daughters (Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, and Amythyst Kiah). ... more

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