Allison Russell
Aug 6, 2026 · 59 min · 15 segments
Episode 366: *In The Hour Of Chaos*, Allison Russell's third solo album, brings the power of harmony and solidarity into a time of division and fear. In an interview days before its release, the…
Aug 6, 2026 · 59 min · 15 segments
Episode 366: *In The Hour Of Chaos*, Allison Russell's third solo album, brings the power of harmony and solidarity into a time of division and fear. In an interview days before its release, the…
Allison RussellGuestCraig HavighurstHost
I think that folk is so massive and expansive, like the, kinda the greater folk, roots, all Americana, um, alternative country.
And I think it's more a spirit and, and, and a creative communion with a larger circle of people, and an acknowledgement of the, the shoulders that we stand on and the music that we play, that we haven't sprung up fully formed out of some vacuum or some god's head, you know? [laughs]
And that we are drawing on the strength of those who've come before us, and we are in community and communion and cross-pollination with each other as well.
You know, this record, In the Hour of Chaos, to me, is almost like the mixtape for a musical that I have yet to write.
And I've populated it with a lot of the voices and people that I find the most inspiring.
Can you talk a little bit about who maybe some of those figures are in the, let's say, Tennessee, Nashville area-
... who you didn't think you'd be kind of allied with or working with because it, they, maybe they weren't musicians first and foremost? They are more, they, they are more about a movement, more about, uh, justice, more about who...
Talk about how that, you know, w- I'm sure that concert was, you know, part of your journey-
I just think there is so much cross-pollination between those who are in the trenches doing harm reduction and equality and justice work and music.
I think that folk is so massive and expansive, like the, kinda the greater folk, roots, all Americana, um, alternative country.
And I think it's more a spirit and, and, and a creative communion with a larger circle of people, and an acknowledgement of the, the shoulders that we stand on and the music that we play, that we haven't sprung up fully formed out of some vacuum or some god's head, you know? [laughs]
And that we are drawing on the strength of those who've come before us, and we are in community and communion and cross-pollination with each other as well.
You know, this record, In the Hour of Chaos, to me, is almost like the mixtape for a musical that I have yet to write.
And I've populated it with a lot of the voices and people that I find the most inspiring.
Can you talk a little bit about who maybe some of those figures are in the, let's say, Tennessee, Nashville area-
... who you didn't think you'd be kind of allied with or working with because it, they, maybe they weren't musicians first and foremost? They are more, they, they are more about a movement, more about, uh, justice, more about who...
Talk about how that, you know, w- I'm sure that concert was, you know, part of your journey-
I just think there is so much cross-pollination between those who are in the trenches doing harm reduction and equality and justice work and music.
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