Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot" begins with a description of a mystical woman: "She is benediction / She is addicted to thee / She is the root connection / She is connecting with he." The song was ...

In 1979, Patti Smith was riding the wave of her most commercially successful album, Easter, when she released a song that would become one of her signature anthems. Written by Smith and Ivan Kral for ...

Music is full of esoteric artists the mainstream ignores, but sometimes history corrects what the audience missed. In the 1970s, Arista Records tried but failed to break Patti Smith into the ...