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17 July 2026 – Lenny Kaye Finally Goes 'Local'
By Editorial Team - July 17, 2026
Summary
At 79, Patti Smith Group guitarist and Nuggets curator Lenny Kaye releases debut solo album 'Goin' Local', featuring Patti Smith and collaborators from jazz, roots, and rock.
Key Facts
- Lenny Kaye releases debut solo album 'Goin' Local' at age 79.
- Patti Smith guests on the track 'Solstice'.
- The twelve-track record treats geography and memory as emotional history.
- Entities: Lenny Kaye, Goin' Local, Patti Smith, Patti Smith Group, Nuggets, Solstice, Pennsylvania Girls
- Tags: lenny kaye, goin local, patti smith, nuggets, rock
At 79, guitarist, writer and legendary musical archivist <a href="/tags/lenny kaye">Lenny Kaye</a> releases his debut solo album 'Goin' Local'. Best known as a member of the <a href="/tags/patti smith">Patti Smith</a> Group and the curator behind the hugely influential 'Nuggets' compilation, Kaye uses the twelve-track record to turn his attention inward and toward the places, people and memories closest to him.
Patti Smith appears on 'Solstice', while the wider album includes collaborators from jazz, roots and rock backgrounds. Songs such as 'This Love', 'Let's Make a Memory', 'Pennsylvania Girls' and 'The Things You Leave Behind' suggest a record interested in geography as emotional history.
It is remarkable that somebody with such an extensive career can still technically release a debut album. Most artists would have used up the phrase decades ago. 'Goin' Local' feels less like a late beginning than a circle finally closing around the person who spent years documenting everybody else's noise.