Amy Helm wants us to go toward the light. For her latest, her sophomore solo project This Too Shall Light, Helm is a secular evangelist, delivering her ministry through her music with the intensity of Bettye LaVette, shadowed beautifully by […]
Amy Helm Sellersville Theater Sellersville, PA 9/16/2018 Amy Helm has told me she doesn’t read reviews at all. Great, that gives me a good excuse to keep this short. After all, I am a photographer who writes reviews […]
Amy Helm@ Bromberg’s Big Noise Festival
Amy Helm@ Bromberg’s Big Noise Festival
The 2018 version of David Bromberg’s Big Noise Festival in Wilmington, Delaware, was a blast. I do love these one day festivals. A great lineup of The National Reserve, David Wax Museum, Amy Helm, Betty LaVette, Railroad Earth, Los Lobos, […]
How many Midnight Rambles have I gone to at Levon Helm’s home on Plochmann Lane in Woodstock, New York, from 2004 until the present day? Suffice it to say, simply, more than a hundred. Other folks went many more times […]
Bob Dylan first headed up the Hudson River to Ulster County, New York, almost 55 years ago. After Albert Grossman became his manager, in mid-1962, Dylan regularly skipped out of Manhattan to visit Grossman and his wife, Sally, in Bearsville. The sign on […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally appeared in the Summer 2016/Homegrown edition of No Depression‘s quarterly journal, which is now sold out. Subscribe to No Depression today and never miss another issue. Rambling at midnight goes back many centuries and […]
I only recently met Kenny White when he came through town on tour and I interviewed him on the radio. When we started talking off-mic about music, I knew that he would be a great artist to share his stories and […]
