In conjunction with this announcement the group has created a new video for “Long Distance Love,” from the group’s 1975 release The Last Record Album, which was re-recorded with Amy Helm during the pandemic. The audio is now available for pre-save and we are premiering the video today.
Read MorePhotographer Elliott Landy publishes a new two-volume set of Band photos and a live slideshow at Upstate Films’ Orpheum Theater on November 20, revisiting the brief, blazing years that defined Americana.
In Elliott Landy’s studio, there was a box he’d labeled “seconds.” Inside were the photographs that didn’t make it into his first book on The Band. Years after that 2015 volume was published, Landy opened the box, started flipping through the eight-by-ten work prints, and felt a shock of recognition. How did I leave that out? One image after another—favorites, forgotten. “At that point,” he says, “I knew I had to do a second book.”
Read MoreTourists have flocked to Woodstock, New York since the late 1960s, when word got out that rock stars and other musicians had moved there, and the town lent its name to the biggest event in rock music history, 1969’s Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Musician Amy Helm was born a year later in Woodstock and has seen the town’s popularity grow. Today, she only has warmth for visitors and reveals to them her favorite things locally and in the Hudson River Valley.
Read MoreTourists have flocked to Woodstock, New York since the late 1960s, when word got out that rock stars and other musicians had moved there, and the town lent its name to the biggest event in rock music history, 1969’s Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Musician Amy Helm was born a year later in Woodstock and has seen the town’s popularity grow. [...] “Woodstock is a beautiful small town with a strong community of supportive and kind people,” says Helm, who just released a new album Silver City, her fourth solo album.
Read MoreThe new recording of Amy Helm, "Silver City" features her original material, more than her previous three recordings. It hits the stands on Sept. 6. [...] Head north to perform a headline set at the Black Swamp Arts Festival. Helm will perform Saturday, Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. on the Main Stage. “I travel so much for work and the stories in the songs are very much about my experience at different times in my life that are always defined by the place I was,” Helm said. “There is a lot of motion." [...] Helm is excited to be bringing that joy to the Black Swamp Arts Festival. She said she’s heard “wonderful things” about the festival and she’s happy to have been invited to perform. “It sounds like a cool community building event. I’m excited to be there I love playing music for people. It’s happiest I am.”
Read MoreAmy Helm is the immensely talented daughter of Levon Helm, drummer and co-lead singer for The Band. With that kind of background and a life infused with music, including years of playing and touring with Levon Helm, she has developed some serious chops. That talent is displayed front and center on Amy Helm’s upcoming album, Silver City, which is being released on September 6, 2024. Americana Highways had the opportunity to get a pre-release of the album. Silver City is Amy Helm’s fourth studio album. Intensely personal, each of the songs represent individual stories and glimpses into Helm’s life and experiences including her roles as artist, mother, wife, and woman, while also drawing inspiration from the strength and struggles of women generally.
Read MoreDie Tochter von The-Band-Musiker Levon Helm spielt im Mai drei Konzerte in Deutschland.
Amy Helm ist schon lange viel mehr als eine Sängerin. Nach jahrzehntelangem Perfektionieren ihrer Kunst hat sich Helm zu einer eigenen Stimme in der Musikwelt entwickelt. Das ist gar nicht so einfach, wenn man die Tochter von The-Band-Musiker Levon Helm ist.
Read MoreLewisburg, WV – Carnegie Hall Mainstage Performance Series continues with soulful singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Amy Helm on Friday, February 18, at 7:30 p.m in the Hamilton Auditorium. Masks are required.
Multiple Grammy Awards winner Amy Helm will be out promoting her third album, What the Flood Leaves Behind. It is her most autobiographical yet, both in content and creation. Out now on Renew Records/BMG, the album’s 10 songs represent a gathering of ideas and experiences, friends and collaborators. Yet, the album also marks a landing — a pause for the traveling musician and mother of two young boys who was seeking clarity in her calling and career.
As I’ve frequently stated, I love chatting with folks for the first time and my recent interview with the late Levon Helm’s daughter, Amy Helm, was no exception.
Read MoreAmy Helm’s latest studio album, What the Flood Leaves Behind, is a reflective, engaging musical statement. She recently told Relix, “I just feel like I had a different relationship with trusting myself. That guided me through the performances. There were years of getting some experience as a solo artist, getting some experience as a mom.
Read MoreWoodstock musician Amy Helm is working on a new album. The Grammy winner has posted news of her latest endeavor on Facebook. Details have yet to be released, but the daughter of the late Levon Helm has revealed where she is recording the album – Levon Helm Studios; and who is performing on the project – musicians Tony Mason, Josh D. Kaufman and Phil Cook.
Read MoreGrateful Web recently had a humbling opportunity to speak with Amy Helm, mandolinist, singer/songwriter, and bandleader of The Handsome Strangers. She also cofounded Midnight Ramble Band, whose roots began with her father the late and great Levon Helm, an Arkansan who met a gifted group of Canadian musicians and inevitably formed The Band in 1964.
Read MoreAfter a lifetime of playing in bands, Amy Helm has taken on the role of frontwoman. While life in the spotlight was unfamiliar at first, Helm hit her stride with a 2015 debut album, “Didn’t It Rain,” and an international tour that stops at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs on Sunday, July 24. New York–based group Fife & Drom will open the night, and Ms. Helm is set to perform with her band, the Handsome Strangers, at 7:30 pm. In a recent interview with The Times, Ms. Helm said she is excited to return to the Island after fondly remembered trips as a child.
Read MoreHer dad was Levon Helm, the renowned drummer for the Band. Mom is singer-songwriter Libby Titus, and her stepfather is Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen. Still, when it comes to making music, Amy Helm is very much her own person.