As musician, writer, and producer, Lenny Kaye is intimately involved with the creative impulse. He has been a guitarist for poet-rocker Patti Smith since her band’s inception forty years ago, has worked in the studio with such artists as Suzanne Vega, Jim Carroll, Soul Asylum, and Allen Ginsberg, as well as his own solo muse. His seminal anthology of sixties’ garage rock, Nuggets, has long been regarded as defining a genre
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