Published at 12:00 AM on March 22, 2007

By Paste Staff

Hear Patti Smith Cover The Stones, Dylan, Nirvana

Patti Smith singing “Smells Like Teen Spirit”? How about “Pastime Paradise”?

You can hear those and more beginning April 24 when Columbia releases Smith’s first-ever covers album and first disc of new studio recordings since 2004’s trampin’.

Twelve features collaborations with playwright Sam Shepard on banjo, Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea and the Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson. On the twelve-song album, Smith and her band cover everyone from Neil Young and Bob Dylan to Tears for Fears and Jefferson Airplane. To hear their reinvention of The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,” click here.

Twelve tracklist:

1. Are You Experienced?
2. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
3. Helpless
4. Gimme Shelter
5. Within You Without You
6. White Rabbit
7. Changing Of The Guards
8. The Boy In The Bubble
9. Soul Kitchen
10. Smells Like Teen Spirit
11. Midnight Rider
12. Pastime Paradise

Related Links:
Patti Smith’s homepage
Patti Smith on MySpace
“Gimme Shelter” MP3

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