Allison Russell to perform at Nashville's Basement East in January

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2022 Americana Music Association Album of the Year award-winner Allison Russell's forthcoming tour in support of "The Returner" -- her upcoming album out on Sept. 8, 2023 -- will feature a date at Nashville's Basement East on Jan. 11, 2024.

Tickets for the concert will be available on Aug. 11 at 10 a.m. CT via https://www.ticketweb.com/event/allison-russell-the-returner-tour-the-basement-east-tickets/13460408.

About "The Returner," Russell stated via Instagram that the 10-track release featured the work of nearly two-dozen creatives and was recorded a week before Christmas 2022 at Los Angeles' Henson Studios. Five decades prior, when the studio was known as A&M Studios, Russell's creative inspirations Carole King and Joni Mitchell recorded their albums "Tapestry," Court" and "Spark and Blue," respectively.

"We communed with the spirits in the walls and the recording booths and most of all, with each other," stated the Canadian-born creator. "The Returner" will also mark her first time as a co-writer and co-producer on an album.

Allison Russell performs with the Fisk Jubilee Singers at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, June 28, 2022.
Allison Russell performs with the Fisk Jubilee Singers at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, June 28, 2022.

Russell described her 2021 breakout album "Outside Child" -- for which she was awarded the Americana Music Association's Album of the Year honor -- in a Tennessean feature as "a chronicle of [her] road map out of a very abusive childhood. The record isn't about abuse; it's about the journey out of it. It's about art as a lifeline. It's about chosen family and chosen community as a lifeline. It's about the transformative power of love."

"I will struggle with shame and self-hatred for my whole life," Russell added.

"That is … one of the legacies for me of surviving ten years of very, very severe abuse. Your body heals, the physical wounds heal, but the psychological wounds go very, very deep. They never fully heal. But that doesn't mean you're defined by them forever."

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