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Hot 100 First-Timers: Allison Russell Debuts With Hozier Team-Up ‘Wildflower and Barley’


Allison Russell debuts on Hot 100 with Hozier duet "Wildflower and Barley."

Canadian singer-songwriter Allison Russell has been releasing music for over two decades, but she’s now, officially, a Billboard Hot 100-charting hitmaker, thanks to her new song with Hozier, “Wildflower and Barley.” Russell, from Montreal, has had a longstanding career in numerous forms: as a member of the bands Birds of Chicago, Our Native Daughters, Po’ Girl, Tim Readman & Fear of Drinking, Sankofa and Sisters of the Strawberry Moon, as well as a solo recording artist. “Tonight my Republican colleagues blocked a resolution honoring Black American Roots artist Allison Russell for her first Grammy win,” he wrote.

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