Allison Russell on jamming with Joni Mitchell, Annie Lennox, Hozier and more; and Lucy Sante's Six Sermons for Bob Dylan

Allison Russell’s jazz, blues, and folk influences create a sound that seems infinitely adaptable across her many projects. Her collaborators include Joni Mitchell, Annie Lennox, Hozier, Brandi Carlile, and Orville Peck, as well as making music with her husband JT Nero, and with three other banjo players (including Music Show alumni Rhiannon Giddens and Leyla McCalla). She talks to Andy ahead of her Australian tour dates. Please note this interview makes mention of child abuse, support is available. 

Lucy Sante has worked with Bob Dylan for over 25 years, but she’s never met him. Despite being a go-to writer for liner notes, speeches, press kits and prefaces, she doesn’t consider herself a dylanologist. She joins Andy to talk about the sermons she wrote to be delivered by an actor in a film project based on Dylan’s ‘Gospel Years’, which have now been published as Six Sermons for Bob Dylan, a set of ‘rollicking and clarifying exhortations’ that draw on the tradition of recorded sermons in 1920s and 30s Black churches.