Singer-songwriter Amy Helm has announced her third solo album, What the Flood Leaves Behind, which will hit fans this summer on Jun. 18. She also dropped the first single from the album, titled “Breathing."
Helm had recorded her previous record, 2018's This Too Shall Light, in Los Angeles, but she returned to her native Woodstock, N.Y. to record the new album at Levon Helm Studios, the studio her father built.
"Going back to the place where I learned so much about how to express music, how to hold myself in music, how to listen to music,” she said in a statement. “It was humbling in a funny way. I could see clearly where I came from and where I am now in my life. I was singing from a different place now and for a different reason.”
The album was produced by Josh Kaufman, who also produced Taylor Swift’s folklore. Kaufman also contributes piano, guitar and mandolin on the record.
“I wanted her to feel like she had that freedom to be herself on the recordings and she just filled up the whole room. Her singing was coming from this deeply rooted place of family and music and wanting to convey a beauty,” Kaufman said in press release.
The band also features an ensemble of collaborators, including Phil Cook (keys, harmonica), Michael Libramento (bass, organ, percussion), Tony Mason (drums), Daniel Littleton (guitar), Stuart Bogie (saxophone), Jordan McLean (trumpet) and Helm's son Lee Collins (congas).
Listen to the new single below.
