25 August 2025
On November 10, PATTI SMITH‘s debut LP,
her magnum opus HORSES turns 50.
Of course, it’ll be celebrated with an anniversary edition, featuring several previously unreleased tracks. Along with the proper album, we get her 1975 audition tape for RCA,
an alternate take on Birdland and Snowball, a non-album track.
PATTI: “Hello everyone, my record company announced the forthcoming release of the
fiftieth anniversary of Horses, my first album. In a way I feel these pre-announcements
for books, records and films are quite early. But that is how things operate and since they support and believe in my work I am showing support and gratitude by sharing their information.
I am not soliciting you ever, though of course I always hope you will read what I have written. But I am posting here, information shared and perhaps appreciated then off we go somewhere else. There are 6,500 vinyls. It’s a double album and the second was compiled after much labor.
Unearthed recordings, a couple live pieces from CBGB, youthful efforts gathering dust, little bits scavenged from half a century ago. I am grateful to all who helped form it and the people who have supported it for five decades.”
Pre-order info here.
Original LP