Allison Russell covers Tracy Chapman for SoS and The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- "It was the song that made me understand for the first time that I wasn't alone. It was my first time being away from my really abusive childhood home. I was allowed to go on a trip with my Uncle David, my maternal uncle. And we drove through the Rockies in Canada, and he played me Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman in the car tape deck. I had my little pink sunglasses on and DayGlo pink shirt, and putting my head against the window, and just closing my eyes and sobbing when I heard that song. And I will never forget hearing her voice, and the empathy in her voice, and the recognition and the understanding. And it also gave me hope because she was singing about it. And that felt really powerful to me, because the fact is that we're all inheritors. We're all the culmination of long lines of survivors. Feeling that connection with those who've come before has been a strengthening and a healing thing." - Allison Russell
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Today we’re releasing our next video in partnership with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and our “Song That Found Me At The Right Time” series. This one features singer-songwriter Allison Russell performing the “Behind the Wall” by the legendary Tracy Chapman.
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While Russell's 2021 debut LP “Outside Child” chronicles the harrowing sexual abuse of her childhood, it really captures how she then made it out, and it is an incredible and joyful listen - "an almost indescribably rewarding album" (@Variety). It deserves to not only be on end-of-year lists but to be considered an unparalleled musical offering about chronic trauma, race, courage and healing.
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“Last night I heard the screaming
Loud voices behind the wall
Another sleepless night for me
It won't do no good to call
The police always come late
If they come at all"
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I needed this today. "You will never forget a person who came to you with a torch in the dark." Thank you for burning so bright. Thank you for holding on when you were lost in your own seemingly eternal night...you are now lighting the way for so many. You make a difference every single day. I wish you peace. May you be well, may you be happy, may you be surrounded by love, may you move through life with ease. Thank you. 🥰💗
Your pain has enlightened you. Thank you for sharing. This helps and gives hope to so many.
Your Beautiful, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing your story.
I can't believe I'm just now learning about Allison's life and career. I now realize that I met her when she was a newborn in Montreal in 1979 through her mother who I knew from high school. I never heard till now what horrors she went through during the 80s at the hands of her step father.
Thank you so much for sharing. I share a very similar story to yours, and am on my healing journey. You are helping to save lives for those of us who are trying to grasp onto any hope that there will be joy after a lifetime of repeated trauma.
Wish there was a love button. You are healing people Allison 💛
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Hit the like button y'all
Nobody looks at the play list when bad or good happened. Music transcends barriers. Unless a court of law wrecks simple humanity.
What a beautiful rendition of this Tracy Chapman song at the end of this video. Wondering if Allison Russell has ever met Tracy Chapman. I bet Tracy Chapman loves Allison's rendition.
What a heartbreaking childhood. What a phoenix rising from the ashes.