Lenny Kaye - Patti Smith, Suzanne Vega & author of Lightning Striking

<p>Lenny Kaye - Patti Smith, Suzanne Vega & author of Lightning Striking in conversation with David Eastaugh</p> <p>As musician, writer, and record producer, Kaye was intimately involved with an array of artists and bands. He was a guitarist for poet/rocker <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_Smith'>Patti Smith</a> from her band's inception in 1974, and co-authored Waylon, The Life Story of Waylon Jennings. He worked in the studio with such artists as <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.E.M.'>R.E.M.</a>, <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_(band)'>James</a>, <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Vega'>Suzanne Vega</a>, <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carroll'>Jim Carroll</a>, <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Asylum'>Soul Asylum</a>, <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Hersh'>Kristin Hersh</a>, and <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg'>Allen Ginsberg</a>. His seminal anthology of sixties' garage-rock, <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuggets:_Original_Artyfacts_from_the_First_Psychedelic_Era,_1965%E2%80%931968'>Nuggets</a>, is widely regarded as defining the genre.You Call It Madness: The Sensuous Song of the Croon, an impressionistic study of the romantic singers of the 1930s, was published by Villard/Random House in 2014</p>