Amy Helm

Amy Helm has quietly become one of the most treasured multi-generational live musicians and best kept secrets as a singer, songwriter, and performer. She’s now touring her critically acclaimed album Silver City.

The album draws inspiration from varied stories of womanhood in all of its complexities: a young fan struggling with substance abuse, a rural ancestor who was married off, a teen reeling from her first heartache, and Helm’s own life as a single mother and hard-touring singer. The songs blend the folk twang of Helm’s childhood with gospel and soul.

With Silver City, Helm shares the lessons she’s gathered from a remarkable life as an artist, mother, daughter, and woman, as someone who has worked, evolved, and persevered. 

“No one talks about the beauty of age,” she says. “Shame and fear are so common to so many of us, and to get through that and feel ourselves change is the most beautiful thing about getting older. It’s incredible to look back at things and celebrate how we’ve survived.” 

With this album, Helm embraces this strength of transformation through her powerful, story-rooted performances. These stories, complex and real, show Amy as she is. Reflected in the illustration on the Silver City cover art, Amy is surrounded by the messes her kids make, her cast-off high-heeled boots, and a crooked crown, but she’s also where she should be: on her throne, gazing into the future.

Helm carries a storied “musician’s musician” reputation. The Grammy-award-winning producer and daughter of Levon Helm has an extensive musical pedigree. Helm embodies an authentic live musical tradition in her solo work and with the Helm Family Midnight Ramble, which carries on her father’s legacy.

“Amy Helm serves up gorgeous harmonies.” – Billboard

“Where Ms. Helm truly excels — as she has proved in Rambles’ past and with the gospel-folkish group Ollabelle — is in the mining of emotional subtleties within a song.” – The New York Times