March 1 – Columbus, OH Park Street SaloonĤ2 years ago, the colour of the charts was definitely white. 9:30 Clubįebruary 20 – Irvington, NY Irvington Town Hall Theaterįebruary 27 – Ardmore, PA Ardmore Music Hall Here are the dates for her upcoming trek:įebruary 17 – Wilmington, NC Brooklyn Arts Centerįebruary 19 – Washington, D.C. Helm is getting ready to hit the road with Anders Osborne. So along with great vision from director Michelle Cutolo and crew lead by producer T Zhang, we opted for a live one-shot performance which we filmed on a beautiful autumn day."
I wanted the video to capture as much of the live energy of my band as we could. "When we recorded it for my album, we decided to switch gears and do it acoustically. "I loved being able to connect to this song, singing it night after night, and building a vocal arrangement around my dad's one-of-a-kind groove," Helm tells Rolling Stone Country. While Helm's performance spotlights her raw, organic approach to the tune, it also carries the freewheeling spirit of Cooke's original. For her rousing version of the song, Helm looked no further than her family's own backyard.įilmed entirely outdoors on a crisp autumn day, outside the Levon Helm Studios and "the Barn" where the Midnight Ramble performance sessions and other concert events still draw large crowds, the accompanying video for "Good News" follows Helm and her band on a march through the woods. The tune served as the title track of Ain't That Good News, the last he would release before his own tragic shooting death at 33 in December 1964. Months later, the first new music the R&B, gospel and pop icon would record in the wake of his son's tragic death was "Ain't That Good News," a lively reworking of an old gospel standard, which shifted the lyrics from spiritual to secular but maintained the joyful exuberance of the original. In the summer of 1963, Cooke's 18-month-old son drowned in the family's swimming pool. It stands to reason, then, that Helm would be especially drawn to one of the LP's cover tunes, "Good News." A favorite of her father's to play at the many Midnight Rambles he hosted at his home in Woodstock, New York, it's a song that Sam Cooke wrote and recorded at a pivotal time in his own turbulent life. While it carries her father's name as executive producer (Levon played on three cuts) and is awash in a wide array of influences from R&B and blues to folk and country, Didn't It Rain firmly establishes the younger Helm as one of Americana's most impassioned, soul-stirring singers. Anticipation grows for his album, on which he's been working since moving to Nashville a year ago.Įarlier in the evening, there were performances by southern country-rock band A Thousand Horses, ahead of their appearance at the UK's C2C Festival next month the Cadillac Three, fresh from their highly successful UK tour which had ended only 48 hours earlier and Alabama-born, Nashville-based country artist Drake White, who is Tyler's labelmate at Dot. Introduced by Big Machine Label Group founder Scott Borchetta, Tyler commanded the stage with his familiar charismatic presence, and could do no wrong in the eyes of a devoted audience. With his hair blowing and a scarf on the mic stand, Tyler made his appearance at midnight, as he and his band launched into Aerosmith's 'Jaded.' The short set also included a cover of the soul gem 'Piece Of My Heart,' and left admirers in raptures with a closing version of Aerosmith's 'Walk This Way.' Tyler is recording a country-flavoured album for BMLG's Dot label, and played both of the first two singles from it, 'Love Is Your Name' and 'Red, White & You.' The event was part of the Big Machine Label Group’s Ultimate CRS Mardi Gras Kick-Off Party, ending the first day of the Country Radio Seminar event. uDiscover was in the audience to witness the occasion. Steven Tyler headlined an exclusive media show last night (8 February) at Nashville's aVenue club, wowing a roomful of radio programmers with his new country material and classic Aerosmith hits.
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