Allison Russell
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"4th Day Prayer" is from Allison Russell's first ever solo project, Outside Child (produced by Dan Knobler). Stream/buy here: https://found.ee/AROutsideChild

"4th Day Prayer" is written by Allison Russell and Jeremy Lindsay aka JT Nero.
Video by Marc Baptiste

When I first went to live with my mother and her new husband, my adoptive father, after the foster home in Verdun- it was in a flat above an audiologist’s shop on Rue St. Catherine in Westmount. He worked for the audiologist and we got subsidized rent. It was there that the abuse began. I was 5. Westmount is a wealthy enclave - and though we were very poor - even the food banks were richer there. And there was the Park. I spent as much time as I could in that Park- to get away from him. There was an old climbing tree, much beloved, on a little island in the heart of the park- a huge old willow bent almost double- eventually propped up by poles. I was devastated to hear that it was finally felled by a storm in 2010. - A

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Lyrics:

I was the Queen of Westmount Park
It was all mine after dark
Old willow tree it was my throne
Till I till I went home
Father used me like a wife
Mother turned the blindest eye
Stole my body, spirit, pride
He did he did each night

One for the hate that loops and loops
Two for the poison at the roots
Three for the children breaking through
Four for the day we’re standing in the sun

“These are the best years of your life”
If I’d believed it I’d have died
Something told me that they lied
Oh I Oh I survived
Left home, I was just a child
Slept in the graveyard, end of the Mile
When the sun came up and found my skin
I rose I rose again

One for the hate that loops and loops
Two for the poison at the roots
Three for the children breaking through
Four for the day we’re standing in the sun

Slip streams and fever dreams
Do you see what I can't see?
Tell me tell me tell me
I want to understand
From the coast of Africa
To the hills of Grenada
To the cold of Montreal
That whip that whip still falls

One for the hate that loops and loops
Two for the poison at the roots
Three for the children breaking through
Four for the day we’re standing in the sun


The Community of Artists in alphabetical order:
Jason Burger- drums, percussion, apple cider vinegar bottle
Steve Dawson- pedal steel
Jamie Dick- drums, percussion
Dan Knobler- guitars, slide guitar, banjo, synths, mellotron
Drew Lindsay- Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Mellotron, pump organ, organ, piano
Alfreda McCrary- harmony vocals
Ann McCrary- harmony vocals
Deborah McCrary- harmony vocals
Regina McCrary- harmony vocals
Chris Merrill- bass
Ruth Moody- harmony vocals
JT Nero- acoustic guitar, vocals, co-writing
Joe Pisapia- acoustic and electric guitars
Erin Rae- harmony vocals
Allison Russell- songwriting, writing, lead vocals, harmony vocals on Montreal and Nightflyer, clarinet, banjo
Jake Sherman- organ on 4th Day Prayer
Yola (appears courtesy of Easy Eye Sound)- harmony vocals on The Runner

Produced by Dan Knobler
Engineered by Kevin Sokolnicki & Dan Knobler
Recorded at Sound Emporium, Studio A, in Nashville - September 18-21, 2019
Assistant engineer: Zaq Reynolds
Additional recording at Goosehead Palace
Organ on ""4th Day Prayer"" recorded by Jon Seale at Mason Jar Music
Mixed by Dan Knobler
Mastered by Kim Rosen, Knack Mastering

Outside Child, an album by Allison Russell

1. Montreal
2. Nightflyer
3. Persephone
4. 4th Day Prayer
5. The Runner
6. Hy-Brasil
7. The Hunters
8. All of the Women
9. Poison Arrow
10. Little Rebirth
11. Joyful Motherfuckers


Allison Russell is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet, and activist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Russell