Easter rising The Place, Eugene. Oregon, May 9th 1978 (2013)/ Patti Smith

"While undoubtedly amongst the most the significant artists to emerge for the early New York punk scene in the mid-1970s, Patti Smith was head and shoulders in front of most of her fellow CBGB artists who came from a similar impulse but lacked the vision Patti and her collaborators appeared to have in droves. Her brave and expansive third record, 1978s "Easter" is a work of sonic magnificence that includes her only hit single to date, "Because The Night". It was just a couple of months after the release of this opus that Patti and band played a superb show at The Place, in Eugene, Oregon, a gig broadcast live by Radio KCEL. A high energy trawl through many of the finest tracks from her first three records, a strange reading of her poem "Salvation Of Rock", plus a selection of well chosen covers, the full show is rediscovered on this CD in superb FM quality, for the first time. A true collectors item and a superb document of precisely where Patti was at during this phase of her career." (bron: Leftfield Media)