PATTI SMITH IS MY FAVORITE SONG ARTIST
PATTI SMITH IS MY FAVORITE SONG ARTIST!
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Only the title song from Trampin'?
...i.e., the coda of one of the 5 best albums of the past decade? But it's indicative of a bigger problem: Patti isn't a singles artist -- to get her you have to dive DEEP. Not that it's a bad collection of songs -- heck, anything with "Dancing Barefoot" is worth the price of admission -- just that it ultimately isn't very representative of what a great artist Patti has been for 3 1/2 decades now. If you have to get a compilation, at least go for Land -- it's a double, but it gives you a much better taste for what she's capable of.
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