The First Edition LP of Goin’ Local is pressed on Blue Bone Splash color vinyl! Limited to 1,000 copies worldwide!
Pre-orders will ship in July!
“I feel like I’m a new artist,” laughs Lenny Kaye, on the eve of the release of his debut solo album, Goin’ Local.
“I think this album will surprise those who think they know me from what I’ve done previously. The songs are personal, written over a period of years, and I’ve kept them to myself. I believe a song exists because there is a need for it to be written, to explain the dynamics of the human relationship, to look at yourself as if in a mirror and get in touch with a deeper emotion, one that needs to be sung.”
In a career spanning more than half a century, one thing is certain: Lenny’s ability to be uncategorizable, to move through genres and settings, giving each their individual place in his musical evolution. Though best known for being a founding member of Patti Smith’s band, recently celebrating fifty years of their epochal Horses album, as well as curating the landmark Nuggets album of Original Artyfacts of the First Psychedelic Era, he has been a successful record producer (Suzanne Vega, Soul Asylum, James, Microdisney, Kristin Hersh, Jessi Colter, Allen Ginsberg), as well as time well spent as a member of Jim Carroll’s band, and playing pedal steel in a New York country-billy combo, the Lonesome Prairie Dogs.
“It is a great blessing to be able to make music at this time in my life for the pure enjoyment and enlightenment it gifts me, the freedom of playing without expectation, to take on new challenges knowing that the work itself is its own reward.
“I’ve always loved the local, its intimacy and camaraderie, the you-are-there and then taken somewhere. It’s what Lightning Striking is about, when a new moment in time and space reveals itself, figuring out its next trajectory. I’ve learned how to be myself, to be at one with my instrument, with my creative spirit, and I guess the truest Goin’ Local is the privilege to go inside my own head, and hear how I sound to me.”
Also available from Lenny Kaye:
Lenny Kaye & The Fleshtones - Lost on Xandu (2019)
