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patti
smith on trampin'
For a generation of rock musicians, hearing Patti Smith for the first time was like someone opening up a door to creative possibility. Her impact and influence can't be over-estimated. Her debut album, released nearly three decades ago, still ranks high on any list of the most important rock recordings ever made. Patti's place in history is secure. trampin', her first album for Columbia Records, is the beginning of a new phase, an album of vitality and imagination and pure inspiration.
"Smith's
gift for poetic imagery is unrivaled even now, almost 30 years after her first
record. B+" "The
year is young, but "Trampin' " is the most powerful album released thus
far in 2004." "Trampin'
" finds Patti Smith, 57, loosing the same revolutionary fervor that spawned
her brilliant 1975 debut, "Horses." "Patti
Smith may have matured from rock's rebel poet to all dissident music, but she
still clings tenaciously to values she embodied from the beginning." "(Smith's) first album for
Columbia and ninth overall is perhaps her most human." "On
"Trampin'" that protean American artist, Patti Smith has served up a
tasty concoction of musical treats that is food for thought, and a delight for
the ears." "Throughout
"Trampin' " she evokes and explicitly summons great spirits of art,
music, spirituality and insurrection, as if she's forming a holy militia, a combined
force for good and inspiration. "Trampin' " is to this decade what Horses
was to the '70's: a repudiation of its time, and the promise of a way forward."
PPPPP "Trampin' " is a tight
and tough comeback from Patti Smith, still a powerful voice in the wilderness
and still a powerful voice for rock's consciousness." "No
one else can summon up such visionary, elemental weariness, with a voice that
echoes within the deep well of shared human experience." |
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