Can Brandi Carlile and SistaStrings cover every song that exists, please. (This is insane.)

Uninvited - Brandi Carlile

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Sometimes when I’m feeling low I watch the video of the great Leontyne Price—still with us today at 99—taking in the THUNDEROUS applause for her big aria at her farewell performance of Aida at the Met in 1985. Incredible. (Skip to 7:00 if you just want that part.) youtu.be/L_56dQteAIY?...

Leontyne Price Opera Farewell "O patria mia" Aida

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I just discovered this song today, from the documentary film about poet Andrea Gibson called Come See Me in the Good Light. There are no words adequate to describe how much this song and these words touched my heart. 🥲❤️

Sara Bareilles - Salt Then Sour Then Sweet (Official Lyric Video) ft. Brandi Carlile

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Allison Russell ✍🏽 When civil rights are eroded for one group, they are eroded for all Are we going to be people that pay fwd the horrors that were done to us, or that we see around us, or are we going to say “No, life doesn’t have to be that way”

Allison Russell on chosen family and the radical act of caring. Out now!

New episode is live! 🎙️ Allison Russell talks about growing up in a difficult household and how she found chosen family through art and music and how that c...

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💥 Allison Russell 1-minute Warm-up (and Warm-down) Wonders 💥 🕰️ Day 8: The Returner 👋🏽 🎶 🌊 ✨ Have a wonderful evening / day everyone! m.youtube.com/shorts/R22tJ...

Warm down #warmupwithus episode 7 post gig #sandiego #rainbowcoalition #thereturner

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AllisonRussellQuotes@arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 3d ago

💥 Allison Russell 1-minute Warm-up Wonders 💥 🕰️ Day 7: Persephone 🪟 ✊🏽🎶 ♥️ Happy National Girlfriends Day! 🌈 m.youtube.com/shorts/_qIsN...

Allison Russell ✍🏽 We stand in a semi circle on stage & the audience is the other half of the circle, they complete it The recording is the archive but when a 🎶 is played LIVE it has a new DNA each time. It’s never the same I ❤️that I ❤️the alchemy & the 🎩 of that

💥 Allison Russell 1-minute Warm-up Wonders 💥 🕰️ Day 7: Persephone 🪟 ✊🏽🎶 ♥️ Happy National Girlfriends Day! 🌈 m.youtube.com/shorts/_qIsN...

Happy #nationalgirlfriendsday! #warmupwithus episode 6 #persephone #rainbowcoalition

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AllisonRussellQuotes@arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 4d ago

💥 Allison Russell 1-minute Warm-up Wonders 💥 Day 6: Rag Child ☀️ 🎵 😊 m.youtube.com/shorts/VHced...

#JamesNicholsong @lagrume.bsky.social sorry the artists are not in the title, but this one’s so joyful & does mention James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Mahalia Jackson, Bob Marley, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan & Shirley Horn and more… can you hear them sing? 🖤⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️🖤

AllisonRussellQuotes@arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 4d ago

Allison Russell ✍🏽 I grew up listening to Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir Lift Every Voice and Sing 🎶 b.1948, music pioneer & Grammy-nom Linda Tillery founded the CHC in the 90s. It’s “survival music,,,these 🎶 will save me in the end”

💥 Allison Russell 1-minute Warm-up Wonders 💥 Day 6: Rag Child ☀️ 🎵 😊 m.youtube.com/shorts/VHced...

Rag Child Acapella #warmupwithus episode 5 #rainbowcoalition on tour w/ @sarahmclachlan 🤘🏾🌈🌈🌈🌈

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AllisonRussellQuotes@arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 7d ago

Allison Russell has been posting gorgeous 1-min acoustic / a Capella versions of 🎶 as she tours her new album w/ Sarah McLachlan ♥️ Here’s a quick 🧵 of the latest posts 😊 Starting w/ Chaos Theory (the “title track” from In The Hour of Chaos) 🎵

Allison Russell ✍🏽 I grew up listening to Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir Lift Every Voice and Sing 🎶 b.1948, music pioneer & Grammy-nom Linda Tillery founded the CHC in the 90s. It’s “survival music,,,these 🎶 will save me in the end”

Lift Every Voice and Sing: Linda Tillery, The Cultural Heritage Choir, and Friends

Performed by Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir (vocals and percussion) joined by Joey Blake (bass vocals) and David Worm (vocal percussion) Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble: Leslie Bonnett,…

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Valerie June x Smokestack Allison Russell ✍🏽 Valerie June is magical ✨ 🔥 🔥 New release 🔥 🔥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=aKJD...

Valerie June - Smokestack (Official Audio)

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Lizz Wright x Hit The Ground ♥️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=8epn...

Lizz Wright - Hit The Ground

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Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 6d ago

Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this summer. It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.

#Short&Quick Ruby Amanfu Beautiful, You Are (2:26) Allison Russell ✍🏽 I definitely wanted to amplify the voices of artists [like Ruby] I adore There’s room for all of us & we’re incomparable ~ a 🔥voice & co-writer of A Beautiful Noise, RA collabs on ARs new album

Ruby Amanfu- How Beautiful You Are

Ruby Amanfu at John Prine’s All The Best festival in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic November 2019.

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💥 Allison Russell 1-minute Warm-up Wonders 💥 Day 5: Hy-Brasil (a Capella at Red Rocks) 🐰 🐦 🌷 🎵 m.youtube.com/shorts/afUKv...

Mile high and higher #hybrasil there’s no place like @RedRocksCO #warmup #openers 4 @sarahmclachlan

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AllisonRussellQuotes@arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · 7d ago

Allison Russell has been posting gorgeous 1-min acoustic / a Capella versions of 🎶 as she tours her new album w/ Sarah McLachlan ♥️ Here’s a quick 🧵 of the latest posts 😊 Starting w/ Chaos Theory (the “title track” from In The Hour of Chaos) 🎵

Allison Russell has been posting gorgeous 1-min acoustic / a Capella versions of 🎶 as she tours her new album w/ Sarah McLachlan ♥️ Here’s a quick 🧵 of the latest posts 😊 Starting w/ Chaos Theory (the “title track” from In The Hour of Chaos) 🎵

Pre-game opening for @sarahmclachlan in the @StLouisBlues hockey bathroom🌈#rainbowcoalition

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#Short&Quick RIP Glen Hansard, who passed suddenly today. 💔 🎵 🇮🇪 I’m not aware of any specific Allison Russell connection, but after listening to this there’s no other song I could post today The Parting Glass m.youtube.com/watch?v=sCZc...

Glen Hansard - The Parting Glass (Live 2012) | Stage On Sixth

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#Short&Quick Rhiannon Giddens 🪕 (2:16) Allison Russell ✍🏽 on Rhiannon Giddens I think Rhiannon’s minstrel banjo is one of the most beautiful sounds I’ve ever heard….She is an artist for the ages ~ I love watching how her face moves on this as music flows out of her m.youtube.com/watch?v=rxW8...

Rhiannon Giddens plays on her gourd banjo "Brigg's Corn Shuckin' Jig " and "Camptown Hornpipe'

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#nightmusic @no-id-lady.bsky.social pointed out yesterday that Sinead O’Connor died 3 years ago. Allison Russell shared a tribute to O’Connor this morning. Norah Jones interviews & accompanies. “This Is To Mother You” Hope your air is clear. Have a good evening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuX1...

Sinead O’Connor Tribute

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Allison Russel x Norah Jones - Sinead tribute Now with a direct link to the clip 😊(thanks to everyone who engaged with this post yesterday) 🙏🏽 m.youtube.com/watch?v=SuX1...

Sinead O’Connor Tribute

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AllisonRussellQuotes@arqandtheclouds.bsky.social · last wk.

Allison Russell x Norah Jones x This is To Mother You (Sinead O’Connor tribute) AR ✍🏽 I don’t know that I’ve ever had such an emotional reaction to the death of someone that I didn’t personally know. It hit me so hard. She was one of the freedom singers to me 56:00~ m.youtube.com/watch?v=zMIO...

#Short&Quick Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten x In the Sweet By & By (1:36) Allison Russell ✍🏽 There are Black women at the root of every genre of American song b. Left-handed in 1893, EC pioneered folk blues playing the guitar “upside down” in a new style: “Cotten-picking”

Elizabeth Cotten - In the Sweet By and By

Music video of Elizabeth Cotten performing In the Sweet By and By. Libba doing her instrumental version of the old hymn, via Traditional Art Services of the Seattle Folklore Society. 🎵 More…

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Allison Russell x Norah Jones x This is To Mother You (Sinead O’Connor tribute) AR ✍🏽 I don’t know that I’ve ever had such an emotional reaction to the death of someone that I didn’t personally know. It hit me so hard. She was one of the freedom singers to me 56:00~

Norah Jones Is Playing Along with Allison Russell (Podcast Season 2 Episode 40)

GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter, actor, and human rights advocate Allison Russell joins Norah for a conversation about their shared musical inspirations. Allison reflects on her powerful experience…

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#Short&Quick Sinead O’Connor x Kris Kristofferson Help Me Make It Through The Night (2:10) Allison Russell ✍🏽 She broke my heart w/ her voice too many times to count, & took my breath away w/ her bravery The least we can do today is stand in awe… & play her 🎵 loud

Kris Kristofferson & Sinead O' Connor (Duet) "Help Me Make It Through The Night"

Kris Kristofferson & Sinead O' Connor Duet on Saturday Night with Miriam..07/08/2010...Great Duet........................ No Copywright infringement intended.No Financial gain from this upload.

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Allison Russell ✍🏽 S/times people feel like they’re carrying everything alone or they can’t ever take a break or they can’t give themselves grace to just be in deep grief… I think we’re so hard on ourselves & we forget that that is the grace of humanity When one is tired, the other can be strong

#Short&Quick Sister Rosetta Tharpe x Up Above My Head 🎸 🖤 🎶 Just glorious - rare LIVE solo version (1:19) 🥰 Allison Russell ✍🏽 There’s no Elvis without Sister Rosetta Tharpe… that’s why we call her The Mother of Rock N Roll

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head - Acustic

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#Short&Quick Lizzie “Memphis Minnie” Douglas x Killer Diller Blues (2:29) b. 1897, MM was the first known person to play the 🎸 in public, pioneering the country & electric blues sound w/ her trademark “standing up” style 🔗 to Allison Russell’s podcast in Reply 🖤 m.youtube.com/watch?v=pmpT...

#Short&Quick Allison Russell ✍🏽 Our queen, our beautiful Norah, I❤️ her so much We first collab’d when Willie Nelson asked us to perform together… baby Allison who was driving around listening to Norah obsessively in 2003 was doing back flips… Turn Me On (2:34)

Turn Me On

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Turn Me On · Norah Jones Come Away With Me ℗ 2001 Capitol Records, LLC Released on: 2002-01-01 Producer, Vocalist: Norah Jones Producer: Jay…

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#Short&Quick Allison Russell ✍🏽 You have to enjoy the struggle, because Lord knows we’re never gonna stop struggling in this world, in this life Aretha Franklin x Natural Woman 🎼Before the day I met you Life was so unkind You’re the key To my peace of mind 🧵 LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=8jCF...

Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (Official Lyric Video)

Watch the lyric video of "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" by Aretha Franklin from the album 'Lady Soul' (1968). "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" has been covered by Carole King,…

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#Short&Quick When Persephone met Orpheus Allison Russell ✍🏽 I want everybody to know about Chibueze Ohuoma I met him on stage (Hadestown on Broadway)…& he took my breath away He’s a brilliant songwriter too so people will know his name one day soon Blackbird (2:16)

"Blackbird" – Chibueze Ihuoma

Chibueze Ihuoma performs "Blackbird" by The Beatles

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#Short&Quick Allison Russell ✍🏽 Brittney Spencer’s voice is like an instrument of divine sonic healing. I find her breathtaking It was joyful that she blessed [my album] w/ her extraordinary voice 💥 Angie Stone tribute LIVE x No More Rain (in this cloud) (2:25) m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp7E...

Brittney Spencer Promises "No More Rain" In Tribute To Angie Stone! | BET Awards '25

Watch Brittney Spencer's soulful tribute to Angie Stone with her version of "No More Rain." #BETAwards #BET #culturesbiggestnight SUBSCRIBE to #BET! ►► http://bit.ly/1U0v9xG Stream Black Culture…

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#Short&Quick Fun Fact: The acoustic guitar on Allison Russell’s new album is Nick Drake’s Wendy Melvoin (of Prince & the Revolution) bought the guitar & both Wendy & Lisa -& some exquisite guitar - ft on the record 😊 🌈 🎶 Nick Drake x From the Morning (2:26) m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Jj...