Patti Smith is reissuing her seminal 1975 debut album Horses to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The newly remastered edition arrives October 10 in 2xLP and 2xCD formats via Legacy Recordings. It includes alternate takes of album tracks, Smith’s original 1975 audition tape for RCA, and four previously unreleased songs: “Distant Fingers,” “The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game,” “We Three,” and “Snowball,” the latter of which is out today. Listen to it below.
Smith is set to publish the memoir Bread of Angels on November 4. In the autumn, she’ll embark on a string of tour dates performing Horses in its entirety across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. As part of the Soundwalk Collective alongside Philip Glass and Mulatu Astatke, Smith put out two albums, The Peyote Dance and Mummer Love, in 2019.
Read about the Horses tracks “Land” and “Gloria: In Excelsis Deo” at No. 93 and No. 20, respectively, on “The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s.”
Horses (50th Anniversary):
01 Gloria: In Excelsis Deo
02 Redondo Beach
03 Birdland
04 Free Money
05 Kimberly
06 Break It Up
07 Land: Horses / Land of a Thousand Dances / La Mer (de)
08 Elegie
01 Gloria: In Excelsis Deo (RCA Demo)
02 Redondo Beach (RCA Demo)
03 Birdland (Alternate Take)
04 Snowball
05 Kimberly (Alternate Take)
06 Break It Up (Alternate Take)
07 Distant Fingers
08 The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
09 We Three
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