Photo by JESSE PARIS SMITH
PATTI Smith, like most of us, has spent the majority of 2020 sitting still. This state of affairs is anathema to Smith’s peripatetic nature - the arc of travels she has traced so eloquently in her memoirs, Just Kids, M Train, and Year Of The Monkey. “I’m a person who likes to be in motion,” she says, sipping coffee in her downtown Manhattan apartment. “I was slated to do a world tour this year, so I had the mindset to be in performance mode. I still have my little suitcase all packed.”
Smith with Soundwalk Collective’s Stephan Crasneanscki and (right) Leonardo Heiblum, co-producer of the trilogy of albums