On her ground-breaking first album Outside Child, Allison Russell—a poet, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist and co-founder of Our Native Daughters with Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla and Amythyst Kiah and Birds of Chicago with JT Nero—disembowels her youth in harrowing detail. She sings about being delivered and being saved, as well as the locations, people and epiphanies that enabled her to live and win her freedom. Russell's album is "an album of power and affirmation, not victimization," according to The New York Times' description of him. Three Grammy nominations for Outside Child—best Americana album, best American roots performance and best American roots song—were received. In addition, Outside Child received nominations for the Polaris Music Prize, two Juno Awards and four Canadian Folk Music Awards.
On a Jimmy Kimmel Live episode, Russell performed her song "Nightflyer" alongside Brandi Carlile and Brittney Spencer as special guests. Russell made her Grand Ole Opry debut there and she also gave a performance at the Country Music Hall of Fame in the same year. On CBS This Morning on Saturday, she played many songs from Outside Child live, following that a performance at Hartford, Connecticut's annual Farm Aid rally.
Russell was nominated for three Grammys. She was one of numerous performers with the Black Opry, a revue that highlighted black country music musicians a month later. She and Brandi Carlile reworked "You're Not Alone," which had previously been released as a single from the Songs of Our Native Daughters album..

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