Patti Smith performs, reflects on ‘Horses’ on ‘Late Show’

Nov. 7 (UPI) — Patti Smith performed her song “Peaceable Kingdom” and discussed the 50th anniversary of her album Horses on Thursday.

The author and singer stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote her new memoir, Bread of Angels.

She wore her hair in loose braids as she sang on the dark stage. Behind her projections of windows appeared.

“Peaceable Kingdom” originally appeared on her 2004 album, Trampin’.

Smith also discussed the her debut 1975 album, Horses.

“Horses is really — it stemmed from poetry. It was poetry that evolved in performance and then finally rock ‘n roll. But what it allowed me — not only to speak to so many people and you know to share my thoughts or ideas with my generation and other generations. It allowed me to travel,” she said. “Because, you know, I came from a lower middle class family. I was working in a bookstore, even when we were recording Horses. And I wanted to see the world so much, but had no real, you know, hope that I would economically be able to travel.”

“And then I finished the record and I think, ‘Okay, back to the bookstore,’ and they said, ‘Oh, no you have to tour,'” she continued.