Patti Smith Leads ‘Horses’ To Michigan

Patti Smith’s series of shows celebrating the lasting influence of her debut album, Horses, continues with a gig announced this week for Royal Oak, Mich.

The show is scheduled March 11 at the Royal Oak Music Theatre.

The acclaimed singer/songwriter and her band will be performing the LP in its entirety. The band features two members of Smith’s original group – Lenny Kaye and Jay Dee Daugherty – along with her longtime bassist/keyboardist, Tony Shanahan.

“It will be a true, proud celebration,” Smith says.

She will celebrate Horses, as well as her 70th birthday, with Friday’s sold-out show at Chicago’s Riviera Theatre. She wraps up 2016 by playing Chicago’s Park West on New Year’s Eve. 

AP Photo / POLFOTO – Patti Smith
Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark

Horses’ 1975 release was met with glowing reviews from publications including Rolling Stone, Cream and The Village Voice.

Rolling Stone’s John Rockwell called Smith “the hottest rock poet to emerge from the fecund wastes of New Jersey since Bruce Springsteen. But Smith is not like Springsteen or anybody else at all.”

The review adds, “Springsteen is a rocker; Smith is a chanting rock & roll poet. … For Smith, the words generate everything else. Her ‘singing’ voice has an eerie allure and her “tunes” conform dimly to the primitive patterns of Fifties rock. But her music would be unthinkable without her words and her way of articulating them – and that remains true even if they are occasionally submerged in sound. Patti Smith is a rock & roll shaman and she needs music as shamans have always needed the cadence of their chanting.”

A presale for Royal Oak is ongoing. The general public onsale begins Dec. 30 at 12 p.m. EST.

Visit PattiSmith.net for more information.