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Richard Gehr | April 09, 2007

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Rock goddess Patti Smith taps directly into the pleasure principle on her forthcoming album, Twelve, a decadent dozen cover versions of her favorite songs. A true rock shaman, Smith renews such generational touchstones as Hendrix's "Are You Experienced?", the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter," and Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" as well as tracks by the Allman Brothers, Beatles, and Nirvana. The biggest surprise, though, is probably her tender psychedelic recasting of Paul Simon's "The Boy in the Bubble." (And she's not the only artist to find contemporary significance in eighties mop heads Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World.") Smith and her band will launch the album with three shows on April 24 at New York's Bowery Ballroom.

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