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From survival to resilience, The Returner celebrates an unapologetic joy so deserved…
Today’s AMM featured the title track to Allison Russell‘s The Returner, but the perfect introduction to this acclaimed release would be “Eve Was Black”, the single that earned Russell a Grammy win for Best American Roots Performance. The lyrics, unfaltering: “Why do you try to touch my hair? / Do you hope to find a blessing there? / Why do you try to keep me down? / Do you hope to sow this barren ground? / With my Black blood? Black magic blood?” It’s a fierce and poetic dismantling of enslavement romanticization that’s the centerpiece of this album, Russell’s exhilarating sonic and spiritual liberation.
Russell brings her tour through Austin for a performance tonight at Scoot Inn on E. 4th. Songwriter and renown poet Kara Jackson opens the show. Doors at 6 p.m.
