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Headlining the Old Town School of Folk Music at Wells Park in Chicago last Saturday night, Patti Smith held court for all the damned in the audience who hoped to be redeemed. Patti sauntered onto the stage wearing a holey T-shirt, a black blazer, jeans and black boots. She ripped into "Glitter in the Night," "Summer Cannibals" and "Dancing Barefoot" in which she stripped off her boots and socks, rolled up her pant legs and jumped down and got intimate with the fans in the first few rows. At one point Patti noticed a smattering of young children in the audience and said "To all you kids here tonight, you are going to hear me say bad words, but sometimes you can use bad words in a good way." The kids might not get what she said now, but hopefully they will when they get older.
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Singer, songwriter and poet Patti Smith defies categorization and convention. Universally regarded as one of rock and roll's most influential musicians, her debut album Horses in 1975 fused rock with proto-punk and spoken poetry and is considered one of rock's greatest debuts. In the years since, Smith has maintained her reputation for innovation and an electrifying performance style, and she was awarded the French Legion of Honor and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Her Songbook show will be a tribute to the women who inspired her, including her mother, the singers Chris Connors and June Christie.
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In the early '70s, 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 remarkably influential, releasing what may be the first punk-rock record (the independent 1974 single "Hey Joe" b/w "Piss Factory") and claiming the rock-musician-as-shaman role previously reserved by males. After a nine-year hiatus, Smith returned to recording with the 1988 album Dream of Life, the work of a more mellow, but still rebellious songwriter. Another eight years would pass before her second artistic comeback, marked by a trio of acclaimed albums released in quick succession, which found her fighting her way out of a period of intense personal grief stemming from the loss of several of the most important people in her life.
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The poet, critic and songwriter Patti Smith won critical acclaim for her debut collection of music and verse. It is a set unlike any other well-known rock album, consisting of recitations with musical backing breaking into powerful rock. For example, the poem "In Excelsis Deo" moves into a thrashing cover of Van Morrison's "Gloria." A line from this piece became the title of Tony Parsons' book
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In the 1970s, Patti Smith hit the underground music scene with an ecstatic blend of free-form poetry and three-chord rock. The woman hailed as the "godmother of punk" credits her signature sound to lessons in free-verse defiance from 19th-century poet Arthur Rimbaud and 20th-century music legend Bob Dylan. Tracey Tanenbaum speaks with Smith for Intersections, a series on artists' influences.
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Patti Smith tickets are available for this punk rock singer/songwriter who came onto the scene in the '70s. Her music became a big deal because of its fusion of poetry with rock and roll. Don't miss out on concert tickets to see a live performance of this artist who has been compared to Bob Dylan. Get yours today.
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