Patti Smith just announced she’s embarking on a ‘Horses 50th Anniversary Tour’ to celebrate her seminal 1975 debut album with the same name.Toward the end of the international run, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee is slated to make a pair of stops at New York’s Beacon Theatre on Friday, Nov.
21 and Saturday, Nov. 22.At all shows, the Punk Poet Laureaute will perform the eight-track “Horses” — which includes “Gloria,” “Redondo Beach,” “Free Money” among other classics — in full for the first time since 2005 along with guitarist Lenny Kaye and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, both of whom played on the now 50-year-old record that she describes as a “three-chord rock merged with the power of the word.”“Please join us to help celebrate the final ride of our irreverent thoroughbred,” the New Jersey native and ’70s New York icon shared in a press release.As for whether Smith still has “it,” critics seem to think so.“She’s still passionate, still fiery, still a dynamite live performer,” Park Life DC wrote about a September 2023 Washington, D.C.
concert of Smith’s. “She’s all heart, and sometimes she stumbled with a lyric before catching herself, but it’s all part of being so deeply emotionally engaged with her material.
If you haven’t seen Patti do her thing, you should make a point of it, because you’re guaranteed to get a great show.”Prior to the outing, REM’s Michael Stipe, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, The National’s Matt Berninger and more are headlining a Patti Smith tribute concert at New York City’s Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, March 26.If you’d like to attend any of the concerts listed above, fans can purchase tickets for all upcoming North American Patti Smith shows on sites like Vivid Seats; the.
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