Horses [LP]

by Patti Smith

Overview

It isn't hard to make the case for Patti Smith as a punk rock progenitor based on her debut album, which anticipated the new wave by a year or so: the simple, crudely played rock & roll, featuring Lenny Kaye's rudimentary guitar work, the anarchic spirit of Smith's vocals, and the emotional and imaginative nature of her lyrics -- all prefigure the coming movement as it evolved on both sides of the Atlantic. Smith is a rock critic's dream, a poet as steeped in '60s garage rock as she is in French Symbolism; "Land" carries on from the Doors' "The End," marking her as a successor to Jim Morrison, while the borrowed choruses of "Gloria" and "Land of a Thousand Dances" are more in tune with the era of sampling than they were in the '70s. Producer John Cale respected Smith's primitivism in a way that later producers did not, and the loose, improvisatory song structures worked with her free verse to create something like a new spoken word/musical art form: Horses was a hybrid, the sound of a post-Beat poet, as she put it, "dancing around to the simple rock & roll song." ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	05/22/2012
Label:	Sony Legacy / Sony Music
UPC:	0886919602814
Rank:	3506

Tracks

1. Gloria: In Excelsis Deo; In Excelsis Deo\Gloria
2. Redondo Beach
3. Birdland
4. Free Money
5. Kimberly
6. Break It Up
7. Land:; Horses\Land of a Thousand Dances\La Mer(de)
8. Elegie

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Patti Smith   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Lenny Kaye   Guest Artist,Bass,Guitar,Vocals
John Cale   Guest Artist,Bass
Tom Verlaine   Guest Artist,Guitar
Allen Lanier   Guitar,Keyboards
Ivan Kral   Bass,Guitar,Vocals,Keyboards
Tony Shanahan   Bass,Piano
Flea   Bass,Trumpet
Jay Dee Daugherty   Drums
Richard Sohl   Piano,Keyboards

Technical Credits

Allen Lanier   Composer,Producer
Bob Irwin   Mastering,Reissue Mastering
Bernie Kirsh   Engineer,Mastering
Bob Ludwig   Mastering
Ivan Kral   Composer
Lanier   Composer
Tony Shanahan   Mixing
Greg Calbi   Remastering
Emery Dobyns   Mixing,Engineer
Lenny Kaye   Composer
Jay Dee Daugherty   Musical Consultant
John Cale   Producer
Verlaine   Composer
Van Morrison   Composer
Richard Sohl   Composer
Patti Smith   Composer,Liner Notes
Chris Kenner   Composer
Vic Anesini   Mastering
Mark Feldman   Product Manager
Huey "Piano" Smith   Inspiration
Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns   Inspiration
Pete Townshend   Composer
Tom Verlaine   Composer
Frank D'Augusta   Assistant Engineer
Chuck Krall   Photography
Lisa Buckler   Product Manager
Richard Aaron   Photography
Bob Gruen   Photography
Sherri Whitmarsh   Design,Reissue Design
Edie Baskin   Photography
Bob Heimall   Design
Robert Mapplethorpe   Photography
Danny Fields   Photography
Bruce Dickinson   Producer