Patti Smith Tickets & Tour Dates 2013

The opening song to 'Banga' re-introduces Smith with ‘Amergio’. Describing the track as “our overture, contemplating the exploits of navigator Amergio Vespucci, from whom America got its name. I imagined Vespucci coming to the New World with great expectations that they would convert the natives, only to find himself utterly transformed by the purity of the land and people” Patti Smith explains in the album’s sleeve notes. Including spoken-word aspects and the poetically driven lyrics she is so well known for, (Smith was once brilliantly described as a ‘Rimbaud with Marshall amps’) she commands the first track with her powerful voice running parallel to rhythmic, stabbing guitars and strings.

Legendary singer-songwriter Patti Smith has joined the bill for End of the Road Festival, thus completing the lineup for 2012.