Patti Smith Quartet Patti Smith/SC,USA 06.03.2025

The live performance at the festival, which was held with Patti Smith Quartet at the only performance in June 2025, is recorded in high-quality stereo audience recording! Patti fell ill during the Italian tour in December 2023, and the performances in Bologna and Venice were canceled, and Patti Smith, who was worried about her condition, made a spectacular comeback in Brooklyn at the end of the year. In 2024, she is currently touring in two formations, Patti Smith Group and Patti Smith Quartet, from her New York performance in February, and in April 2025, she visited Japan for the first time in nine years for her latest project with the contemporary sound art group Soundwalk Collective. The first performance after her visit to Japan, the live performance at the Spoleto Festival held in Charleston, South Carolina on June 3, 2025, is recorded in full with high-quality stereo audience recording! It has been digitally transferred directly from the master recorded with digital PCM, and the vocals are clear and large, and each part is recorded with a very balanced and deep clear sound quality. The Patti Smith Quartet, with his son Jackson Smith on guitar, Tony Shanahan on bass and keyboards, and Seb Rockford on drums, appeared. “Beneath The Southern Cross” was performed with an arrangement that inserted the Beatles’ “Within You, Without You,” and the set list also included a cover of Steve Earle’s “Transcendental Blues,” which was performed for the first time on this day. This is the latest superb recording of a dense performance that can be enjoyed without cuts! Spoleto Festival / The Cistern,College of Charleston Campus,Charleston,South Carolina,USA June 3,2025 (Disc 1)01.Intro 02.Redondo Beach 03.Ghost Dance 04.My Blakean Year 05.1959 06.Boy Cried Wolf 07.Nine (Disc 2) 01.Dancing Barefoot 02.One Too Many Mornings 03.Beneath The Southern Cross* 04.Peaceable Kingdom 05.Transcendental Blues** 06.Because The Night 07.People Have The Power *includes “Within You, Without You” jam **first time played Patti Smith – vocals / guitar Tony Shanahan – bass / piano / guitar / vocals Jackson Smith – guitar Seb Rochford – drums / percussion