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On All Songs Considered, poet and singer Patti Smith joins host Bob Boilen to talk about her musical passions, including doing fancy dance steps with her siblings in South Jersey.
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“I’ve noticed that once a pop musician turns older than 60 — Smith is 65 — the by-now-idiotic, almost-meaningless word “icon” is attached to the musician in reviews like a leech. The word sucks out the complexity of the artist, if he or she is an interesting one, and replaces it with banal compliments. Thus this marvelously uneven, frequently transporting new album has been greeted with not a few reviews padded out with meaningless phrases describing Smith as a “shaman” and a “punk-rock goddess.” This is lazy, condescending and ahistorical — all things Patti Smith never is.” — Ken Tucker
Have you read Smith’s biography Just Kids yet? Patti Smith had a complex history to match her music and poetry.
