Lenny Kaye - Goin' Local

Lenny Kaye — Goin' Local 

Debut solo album from the punk pioneer and "godfather of garage rock"!

Collaborators include Patti Smith, David Mansfield, Matthew Shipp, Lisa Burns, Jay Dee Daughtery and more!

Lenny Kaye has announced his debut solo record, Goin' Local out via Yep Roc Records. At 79, the bonafide punk pioneer and "godfather of garage rock" (NPR Music) steps forward with a deeply personal collection written over the course of many years — piecing together a lifetime of experiences and expansive musical language to find his truest voice.

"I feel like I'm a new artist," says Kaye. "I think this album will surprise those who think they know me from what I've done previously."In a career spanning more than half a century, Kaye has remained defiantly uncategorizable. The longest-serving member of the Patti Smith Group, he has also curated the game-changing garage rock anthology Nuggets — "one of the most influential compilations ever" (The Guardian) — co-wrote Waylon Jennings' autobiography, penned music to Allen Ginsberg's poetry alongside Paul McCartney and Philip Glass — and produced projects for Suzanne Vega, Soul Asylum, Jessi Colter and more.

On Goin' Local, Kaye calls upon several longtime collaborators, including Patti Smith — who co-wrote "Solstice" — continuing a half-century-long creative partnership behind some of their most iconic work, from "Free Money" and "Ghost Dance" to "Radio Ethiopia" and "Southern Cross." Additional collaborators include jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, Railroad Earth's Tim Carbone, The Jayhawks' John Jackson and multi-instrumentalist David Mansfield (Bob Dylan, T-Bone Burnett, Lucinda Williams).

The 12-song collection finds Kaye fully embracing his expansive musical sensibility, while marking his most autobiographical and introspective turn yet.

"I've always loved the local, its intimacy and camaraderie...I feel that the truest ‘Goin' Local' is the privilege to go inside my own head and hear how I sound to me," he says of the title track.

 

 

1. Goin' Local

2. This Love

3. If I Were You

4. Let's Make a Memory

5. A Friend Like You

6. Be That As It May (May Day)

7. Solstice (Feat. Patti Smith)

8. World Book Night

9. Pennsylvania Girls

10. Poppy

11. The Things You Leave Behind

12. Yes I Will

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