Patti Smith Returns to 'Horses' Recording Studio For First Album in Eight Years
Courtesy of Clive Davis
Patti Smith with Clive Davis, who signed the singer in 1975
Singer-songwriter, activist, artist and poet Patti Smith will release her eleventh studio album,Banga, onJune 5.
It has been eight years since her last project, the double discTrampin, which was released after she signed with Columbia Records in 2004.
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The game-changing godmother of punk returned to New York's Electric Lady Studios, where she recorded her first single Hey Joe / Piss Factory and breakout 1974 debut, Horses.BandmatesLenny Kaye,Jay Dee Daugherty andTony Shanahanjoin the singer on the 12-track album along with featured guests Tom Verlaine, Jack Petruzzelliand Smiths son Jackson and daughter Jesse Paris.
Inspired by her dreams amd observations, the full-length features 12 tracks includinga birthday song written for her friend Johnny Depp called "Nine.
Smith received the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2010 for her book Just Kids, which tells the story of her friendship with photographer and artist Robert Mapplethorpe.
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