Patti Smith is reissuing her seminal 1975 debut album Horses to have a good time its fiftieth anniversary. The newly remastered version arrives October 10 in 2xLP and 2xCD codecs through Legacy Recordings. It contains alternate takes of album tracks, Smith’s authentic 1975 audition tape for RCA, and 4 beforehand unreleased songs: “Distant Fingers,” “The Hunter Will get Captured by the Sport,” “We Three,” and “Snowball,” the latter of which is out in the present day. Hearken to it beneath.
Smith is about to publish the memoir Bread of Angels on November 4. Within the autumn, she’ll embark on a string of tour dates performing Horses in its entirety throughout Europe, the UK, and the USA. As a part of the Soundwalk Collective alongside Philip Glass and Mulatu Astatke, Smith put out two albums, The Peyote Dance and Mummer Love, in 2019.
Learn in regards to the Horses tracks “Land” and “Gloria: In Excelsis Deo” at No. 93 and No. 20, respectively, on “The 200 Greatest Songs of the Seventies.”
Horses (fiftieth Anniversary):
01 Gloria: In Excelsis Deo
02 Redondo Seaside
03 Birdland
04 Free Cash
05 Kimberly
06 Break It Up
07 Land: Horses / Land of a Thousand Dances / La Mer (de)
08 Elegie
01 Gloria: In Excelsis Deo (RCA Demo)
02 Redondo Seaside (RCA Demo)
03 Birdland (Alternate Take)
04 Snowball
05 Kimberly (Alternate Take)
06 Break It Up (Alternate Take)
07 Distant Fingers
08 The Hunter Will get Captured by the Sport
09 We Three
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