Amy Helm - This Too Shall Light CD

Personnel: Amy Helm (vocals, mandolin); Adam Minkoff (acoustic guitar); Tyler Chester (piano, organ, keyboards); Jay Bellerose (drums). Audio Mixer: Ryan Freeland. Recording information: Stampede Origin Studio, Culver City, CA; United Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA. Photographer: Ebru Yildiz. This Too Shall Light, Amy Helm's sophomore solo album, is a logical progression from 2015's excellent Didn't It Rain (recorded after three dynamite albums with Olabelle), but it's also a marked departure. For starters, she stepped away from her home base in Woodstock to work with producer Joe Henry in Los Angeles at United Recording Studios in Hollywood, where the Beach Boys records Pet Sounds and the Mamas and the Papas tracked the immortal "California Dreamin." Second, in order to "meet" these ten tunes directly, she refrained from rehearsing or playing them live beforehand. Henry played her Delaney & Bonnie's cult classic Motel Shot, recorded to resemble its many players hanging out and s