Columbia Records Announces The Release of 'Twelve

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Columbia Records Announces The Release of 'Twelve,' an Album of
Classic Songs Newly Interpreted By 2007 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
Inductee Patti Smith
Tuesday February 6, 5:00 am ET
Album Available Tuesday, April 17

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NEW YORK, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Columbia Records will release Twelve,
the eagerly-anticipated album of "cover" versions of classic popular
songs newly interpreted by the 2007 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee
Patti Smith, on Tuesday, April 17.
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Twelve is Patti Smith's first album of new studio recordings since
trampin', her Columbia Records debut, was released in 2004, and is the
artist's first-ever full-length collection of songs originally created
by other performers.

On Twelve, Patti Smith and her band -- Lenny Kaye (guitar), Jay Dee
Daugherty (drums) and Tony Shanahan (bass, keyboards) -- work their
magic on a surprising selection of classic songs and overlooked
treasures from the rock & roll canon including "Pastime Paradise" by
Stevie Wonder, "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" by Tears for Fears
and "Helpless" by Neil Young. Also on Twelve, Smith and company
interpret songs by Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, the Doors, Nirvana,
Jefferson Airplane, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Allman
Brothers, and Paul Simon.

An assortment of guest artists appear with Patti on Twelve including
Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima; playwright Sam Shepard (with whom
Patti collaborated on "Cowboy Mouth" in 1971) on banjo; early 60s
Greenwich Village folk artists John Cohen (banjo) and Peter Stampfel
(fiddle); Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea; Television guitarist
Tom Verlaine; the Black Crowes' Rich Robinson on slide guitar and
dulcimer; and hip-hop producer Luis Resto (Eminem) on keyboards.
Patti's son, Jackson, and daughter, Jesse, are on-hand to contribute
guitar and vocal respectively.

Patti Smith, whose seminal rock & roll album, Horses, was released in
1975, was presented with the prestigious insignia of Commander of the
Order of the Arts and Letters by French Cultural Minister Renaud
Donnedieu de Vabres at a ceremony in Paris on July 10, 2005. Cited as
an esteemed rock & roll poet laureate, Patti was praised by the French
Cultural Ministry as "one of the most influential artists in women's
rock 'n' roll." The citation also noted Smith's deep appreciation of
the 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud.

She was recently named one of the five inductees in the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame's Class of 2007 along with R.E.M., Van Halen, the
Ronettes, and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Patti Smith will
be officially inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame during a
ceremony at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on March 12. "It's a
great honor to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame," said
Smith.

While her groundbreaking vision of "three chord rock merged with the
power of the word" has ensured her place in rock & roll history, Patti
Smith has, throughout her career, developed a reputation as one of pop
music's foremost interpreters, visiting the songs of other musical
artists and transforming them through the lens of her own
understanding, appreciation and imagination. Beginning with her first
single, "Hey Joe," in 1974 and her extrapolations of Van Morrison's
"Gloria" and Chris Kenner's "Land of 1,000 Dances" on her seminal
Horses album in 1975 through her live performances of songs ranging
from "You Light Up My Life" to "My Generation" to her new album,
Twelve, Patti Smith continues to reshape popular music's classic
source materials and make them her own.