Every week Turn Up The Volume jumps into the past! Relive 25 Crackers and 3 Top Longplayers per year/per week. Let’s start with the star-studded year of 1975
‘Trampin’
PATTI SMITH
Released: 27 april 2004
Her ninth album
All Music wrote: “Nearly 30 years and nine albums in, Patti Smith shows no signs of giving up, or giving in, despite the fact she expected to be quietly doing her work instead of making rock & roll albums and playing in front of audiences. But then 9/11, Afghanistan, war in Iraq. Smith lives the vocation of a poet in an old-world sense of that word. Once, bards were the gadflies of society. Smith’s Trampin’ is a work that directly evolves from that tradition and fits squarely in her oeuvre. Trampin’ is Smith’s first outing for new label Columbia. She and her bandmates — Lenny Kaye, Jay Dee Daugherty, Tony Shanahan, and Oliver Ray — walk the tightrope between in-your-face garage rock, poetic ballads, and raucous, improvisational pieces. Not surprisingly, Trampin’ is a largely political album, but it is far from a didactic one. Smith’s voice of resistance is a human one, not an ideological one. This is timeless music. It knows no age or subgenre classification; it is American music as it has been spoken the world over; it is rock & roll done
as well as it can be by anybody.”
Turn Up The Volume‘s favorite track: heartfelt ballad PEACEABLE KINGDOM
Here’s a tender live rendition with Television’s Tom Verlaine on guitar…
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
3 March 2018
ARTIST: PATTI SMITH
ALBUM: EASTER
RELEASED: 3 March 1978
ROLLING STONE wrote: ” She is one of the great figures of Seventies rock & roll. More importantly, perhaps, it focuses her mystical and musical visions in a way that makes her the most profoundly religious American popular performer since Jim Morrison. The magic of ‘Easter’ is undeniable. It is transcendent and fulfilled, and its radiance must be honored. No one else could have made this record — something that can’t be said of most LPs — and for a special reason: no one else in rock & roll would have the nerve to connect Lou Reed, the Bible, Rim-baud, the Paiutes, Jim Morrison, Bruce Springsteen and the MC5.I don’t suppose Patti Smith
can walk on water. But I’d like to see her try.”
TURN UP THE VOLUME!: As intense, powerful, outspoken, poetic
and amazing as her fabulous ‘Horses‘ debut…
THREE HIGHLIGHTS: Rock N Roll Nigger / Till Victory / Because The Night
* ROCK N ROLL NIGGER – awesome classic, smashing live version
*BECAUSE THE NIGHT – probably her most famous song – with thanks to The Boss…
Patricia Lee “Patti” Smith was born on December 30, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois.
Happy 70 to an outstanding singer/songwriter, performer, poet and human being…
Here are three of her timeless classics to celebrate the icon…
