Nightflyer - Allison Russell - bass & vocal cover #music #bass #cover

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Hey there, welcome to my bass and vocals cover of Allison Russell's song Nightflyer. I don't own this song, the music, etc.

I recorded over her vocals for a reason - well, for two, one being that they're training wheels for me as I continue to learn to sing - she's an unbelievable vocalist and person. This song is very much her story, and rather than cover her up, I wanted to add my voice to hers.

I had the incredible luck and privilege to attend a panel on her career at the National Museum of African American Music. I'd visited Nashville on a whim, trying to deal with (read: run from) my own trauma, and stopped into the museum looking for Ella Fitzgerald. By the way, that museum is unparalleled - probably the only thing worth seeing on Broadway in Nashville.

Anyway, I saw that there was gonna be a panel about her that same evening. The only thing I'd ever heard her in was the song Wildflower and Barley she did with Hozier, but my interest was piqued. I spent a long time as an academic and have been a panelist before, so I was game - but I was NOT prepared for the fact that she'd be there. I got to hear her tell her story and play some of her music and it took my breath away. Her life was so different from mine, but sexual assault had shaped her from a young child, as it had me. I was in Nashville trying to escape the shadow of it. I had never heard anyone speak so bluntly and in such an empowering way about it, and it was freeing. Quite literally life-changing. Afterwards, I got to meet her and make a sobbing ass of myself. I'll never forget the experience and what I learned from her strength and light. I listened to her entire discography the next day on the way home from Nashville, and it's beautiful.

So here's to women who empower women, who don't let their past define them but instead use it to refine them and shine a light into the darkness that shame creates for survivors.

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