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January 25, 2007

Patti Smith Takes Stage for New Year's Show

The singer performs songs from "Dreams of Life" for the first time ever
October 17, 2006

Exclusive Q&A: Patti Smith remembers CBGB

Smith discusses how the seminal NYC club shaped her career
October 16, 2006

Patti Smith Rocks Final CBGB Show

The legendary NYC rock club gets a worthy send-off courtesy of its most famed progeny
December 9, 2004

Dancing Barefoot

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Twelve

Three decades after Smith made the transition from poet to rock & roller, we still don't think of her as a singer, exactly -- more a reciter who can carry a tune, kind of. So a covers album showcasing her interpretive gifts is a questionable vehicle. And like most such albums -- there are do...

2007 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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In the early 1970s, painter-turned-poet and sometime playwright (Cowboy Mouth, with Sam Shepard) Patti Smith began to set her poems to the electric guitar backup of erstwhile rock writer Lenny Kaye. By the end of the decade, Patti Smith had proved revolutionary releasing what may be the first punk-rock record (the independent 1974 single "Hey Joe" b/w "Piss Factory") and several now-classic albums...

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