Amy Helm Will Perform Songs from New Album ‘What the Flood Leaves Behind’ in Woodbridge

“I come from Arkansas roses/Hard times, broken noses,” sings Amy Helm on “Cotton and the Cane” (listen below), from her new album, What the Flood Leaves Behind.

Helm—who will perform at a free show, outdoors at Woodbridge High School, Aug. 25 at 7:30 p.m., with Kerri Powers opening—sings of her father, Levon Helm, directly in this song: “My father was a sharecropper’s son/Handed hope and hymns to ease the pain/The sacred songs my family sang/They’re all that remain.”

In addition to the Woodbridge show, Helm also be at the Mt. Tabor Tabernacle in Parsippany (double billed with Steve Forbert), Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m., and will perform at The Lantern Tour concert (also featuring Emmylou Harris, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams and Gaby Moreno and benefiting migrant and refugee families) at the Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood, Oct. 30 at 8 p.m.

Learn more about The Lantern Tour, which benefits the Women’s Refugee Commission.