Dancing Barefoot The Patti Smith Story Author:Dave Thompson Dancing Barefoot is the full and true story of Patti Smith, widely acknowledged as one of the most significant American artists of the rock ?n? roll era, a performer whose audience and appeal reach far beyond the parameters of rock. For this paperback edition it has been newly updated to cover the last five years. This book traces the brilliant ... more »trajectory of her career, including the fifteen reclusive years she spent in Detroit in the 1980s and ?90s, as well as her triumphant return to New York. But it is primarily the story of a performer growing up in New York City in the early and mid-1970s. Guided by interviews with those who have known her?including Ivan Kral, Tom Verlaine, Richard Lloyd, John Cale, and Jim Carroll?it relies most of all on Patti?s own words. This is Patti?s story, told as she might have seen it, had she been on the outside looking in.« less