Release date: 23-02-2006( originallly from 1975)

2006 German Speakers Corner 8-track LP pressed on 180gram VINYL, - a landmark album, great re-press of the seminal debut, in which Smith was full of vinegar, seriously interested in bringing together high art and low three-chord rock & roll. As a result, her free-formpoetry meshes with covers of 'Gloria and 'Land of a Thousand Dances' while the album centres on two long pieces including the three-part suite 'Land' factory sealed. Produced by John Cale and featuring guest guitar from Tom Verlaine [Television] and Allen Lanier [Blue O yster Cult], sealed in picture sleeve.

Tracks:
01. Gloria
02. Redondo Beach
03. Birdland
04. Free Money
05. Kimberly
06. Break it Up
07. Land
08. Elegie

Patti Smith " the first published poet to move her poetry completely into rock 'n' roll and to entice experimental rock fans into the forbidden cinema of her hallucinatory fantasy  " (New York Times)

Began her musical career unconventionally. It took off at a poetry reading where she was backed by Lenny Kaye on guitar; later star photographer Robert Mapplethorpe financed her punk-rock cult single "Hey Joe". In 1975, encouraged by her success, Patti Smith released "Horses", an album in which she fused rock riffs and spoken rhythms to create a punk-trash sound. The rock scene was electrified, raging about »the best garage sound of the 70s« ("Creem Magazine") and conjectured that Smith had »drawn up material from Rimbaud, Burroughs, Dylan and Velvet Underground into a hot needle and injected it under the skin« ("Sounds Magazine"). Later productions were dismissed as sentimental and self-loving outpourings, since the rock-poet didn’t continue in the same vein as "Horses", with its metallic harshness and raw language. That’s why this recording remains an impressive unique production by a visionary rock ’n’ roll singer.

Patti Smith (g,voc); Richard Sohl (p); Lenny Kaye (b, g, voc); Tom Verlaine, Allen Lanier (g); Ivan Kral (b, g, keyb, voc); Jay Dee Daugherty (dr)

Recording: January 1975 at Electric Ladyland Studios, New York City, by Bernie Kirsh
Production: John Cale