New Patti Smith Recordings Premiering Exclusively On iTunes Tuesday,
January 8, 2008
World Premiere of 'Patti Smith: Dream of Life,' Directed by Steven Sebring,
Selected For Sundance Film Festival 2008, Sunday, January 20, 2008
NEW YORK, Dec. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Patti Smith, a 2007 inductee into the
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, will usher in 2008 with the release of a new set
of recordings, "iTunes Originals," debuting on iTunes on Tuesday, January
8; the world premiere at Sundance of "Patti Smith: Dream of Life," a
highly- anticipated documentary film directed by Steven Sebring; and a New
Year's Eve run of sold-out performances at New York's Bowery Ballroom on
December 29, December 30 (the artist's birthday) and December 31.
Patti Smith's "iTunes Originals," a full-length set of new
performances, classic tracks and revelatory interviews debuts exclusively
on iTunes on Tuesday, January 8. Structured around new interviews and
performances recorded at New York's Electric Lady Studios in the spring of
2007, the 90 minute "iTunes Originals" premieres new studio recordings of
Smith's "pissing in the river," "ghost dance," and "peaceable kingdom" as
well as exclusive new versions of the Allman Brothers' "Midnight Rider,"
the Doors' "Soul Kitchen," and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit,"
featuring guest artist Steve Earle.
The "iTunes Originals" collection also includes the original 1978
studio recording of "because the night"; the 1996 digital remaster of
"frederick"; Patti's meditation on Kurt Cobain "about a boy"; "beneath the
southern cross" featuring the late Jeff Buckley and John Cale; "one voice"
(from 2000's gung ho); "my blakean year" (from her Columbia Records debut
album, 2004's trampin'); and a mind-bending performance of her signature
opus "gloria: in excelsis deo," recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall in
London on June 25, 2005 in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the
release of horses, Patti Smith's debut album.
An official selection for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, "Patti
Smith: Dream of Life," a documentary film by Steve Sebring, will have its
world premiere at Sundance on Sunday, January 20, 2008. Patti Smith and her
band -- Lenny Kaye (guitar), Jay Dee Daugherty (drums), Tony Shanahan
(bass, keyboards), and Jackson Smith (guitar) -- will perform two shows
during the festival. Please see http://www.dreamoflifethemovie.com &
http://www.stevensebring.com for more information.
Patti Smith and her band will close out the year with four live
performances including her annual New Year's Eve run at the Bowery
Ballroom:
December 28 Washington, D.C. 9:30 Club
December 29 New York City Bowery Ballroom
December 30 New York City Bowery Ballroom
December 31 New York City Bowery Ballroom
All Bowery Ballroom shows feature special guest Alejandro Escovedo
SIRIUS Satellite Radio Disorder 70 will broadcast Patti Smith and her
band, live, for the 4th year in a row on New Years' Eve, with an immediate
instant replay, anchored by Meg Griffin. The show will be heard live from
the Bowery Ballroom in NYC and will begin at approximately 10 pm ET. As
soon as the show concludes shortly after midnight ET, an immediate instant
replay will be heard on SIRIUS Disorder 70. For more information, please
visit http://www.sirius.com/siriusdisorder
"Poems and Songs for the Young at Heart":
Patti Smith and friends will perform works of Hans Christian Andersen,
William Blake, Lewis Carroll, A. A. Milne, Rudyard Kipling, and Robert
Louis Stevenson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on January
18, 2008.
Patti Smith will perform in the Allen Room in Lincoln Center on
Saturday, March 1, 2008 as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook
series.
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