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In 2013, Canadian singer-songwriter Allison Russell gave birth to her first child with husband and bandmate JT Nero, a baby girl named Ida. But as joyous as the occasion was, it came with a level of stress not faced by most young parents. Russell and Nero are touring musicians. To support their new family, they had to return to work that wasn’t exactly conducive to nurturing a newborn. “We went back on the road [with Ida] when she was four weeks old,” Russell recalls, “and we were in all kinds of time zones and … challenging situations. And this record became our lodestar. It was like any time any of us was distressed, we would play the entire Stardust record, and our child would calm…

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