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LENNY KAYE

As musician, writer, and record producer, Lenny Kaye has been intimately involved with the creative impulse that marks the music. He is a founding member of Patti Smith and Her Band, dating from their first performance as a duo at St. Marks Church in New York’s East Village on February 10, 1971, and has worked with such artists as Suzanne Vega, Jim Carroll, Allen Ginsberg, Soul Asylum, and Jessi Colter. His books include You Call It Madness: The Sensuous Song of the Croon (2004); Waylon: An Autobiography (1994); and the newly released Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll. His seminal anthology of garage rock, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts of the First Psychedelic Era, is regarded as defining a genre and recently celebrated its golden anniversary. @lenny_kaye

MEGAN REILLY with James Mastro

Megan Reilly has a beautiful voice, but she does not sing like an angel. Angels are boring. They have uncomplicated lives, their earthly troubles light washed and rinsed clean of what’s real. The heavenly beauty in Megan’s voice is far richer, filtered through layers of serious experience —the pain of her loss, the force of her love, and the talent that has stayed with her since she left Memphis for New York as a teenager. Her new four-song EP is played masterfully by the same all-star band she assembled at 23. It consists of Steve Goulding (Mekons/Graham Parker & The Rumour/session drummer on Elvis Costello’s Watching The Detectives and Wreckless Eric’s Whole Wide World as well co writer and drummer on Nick Lowe’s “I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass”), Tony Maimone (original bassist of Pere Ubu/Bob Mould/Frank Black and Grammy nominated recording engineer) and James Mastro (The Bongos/Ian Hunter/Patti Smith) on lead guitar.