Two years ago, Allison Russell's breakthrough album took the roots music world by storm. Now nominated for the genre's highest honor, Russell has a new goal: to open Americana up even more.
Allison Russell organized the Newport Folk Festival's"superjam" featuring Chaka Kahn as well as Brandi Carlile, Joy Oladokum, Yola, Nathaniel Rateliff, Margo Price, Adia Victoria and others.Chaka Khan was the musical elder on hand to consecrate the superjam by doing a couple of her sleek, cosmopolitan late '70s and early '80s hits,"I'm Every Woman" and"Ain't Nobody.
Russell released her album on the reactivated Fantasy Records, initially performing the material with those who'd helped her record it, Nero and producer Dan Knobler among them. Fairly quickly, though, those white, male collaborators disappeared from her live lineup."I adore all of the men that I've played music with over the years," says Russell,"but I no longer felt that I needed to center that presentation for what I'm growing as a touring artist.
By the time she took the stage last September at the 2022 Americana Music Honors & Awards, as the recipient of the album of the year plaque, she'd dubbed the ever-evolving group the Rainbow Coalition. The name suggests a political alliance between equals more than a backing band."Coalition," Russell clarifies,"is because people are working on their own things. They're composers and producers and recording artists, they're lead singers and multi-instrumentalists.
Chauntee Ross recalls television appearances where producers automatically positioned Russell out front and everyone else in the Rainbow Coalition in the background. In those situations, Russell chose warm resistance, requesting that the players be moved up to form a semicircle alongside her.
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