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This was Joni Mitchell's album that Allison Russell's mother played as Allison was sitting under a piano.
And I remember sitting under there and watching my mom's feet on the piano and she was playing along actually Joni Mitchell's her favorite artist, you know, been listening to Joni since I was in utero...
— Episode: 251. How to Break Cycles with Allison Ru...
Episode: 251. How to Break Cycles with Allison Russell
This was Joni Mitchell's album that Allison Russell's mother played as Allison was sitting under a piano.
And I remember sitting under there and watching my mom's feet on the piano and she was playing along actually Joni Mitchell's her favorite artist, you know, been listening to Joni since I was in utero with my mom.
No way.
And she was playing along to ladies of the Canyon and a deeper cut, a song called for free, um, which is Joni singing about a busker and, and how nobody's paying attention because they're not famous and she's off stroking the star maker machinery, but really she just wants to go jam with this, this beautiful musician who's playing clarinet on the street for free.