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Each week, Mountain Stage artistic director and co-founder Larry Groce handpicks the Song of The Week from the two-hour broadcast. An excerpt is heard every Friday morning during West Virginia Morning on WVPB Radio.

Listen: Patti Smith Has Our Song Of The Week From 2018

Patti Smith on Mountain Stage
Brian Blauser/ Mountain Stage
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Patti Smith appears on this week's encore broadcast of Mountain Stage.

Poet, performer, visual artist and rock-and-roll icon Patti Smith joins us on this week's encore broadcast of Mountain Stage.

Here she performs "People Have The Power," the driving anthem co-written with her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith, a native of Lincoln County, W.Va. who was posthumously inducted into the WV Music Hall of Fame the evening prior to this performance in 2018.

Patti Smith & Family- "People Have The Power" Live On Mountain Stage
Recorded in 2018
Patti Smith

Smith performs the song with a band that includes her longtime collaborator and guitarist Lenny Kaye, her son Jackson Smith on guitar, daughter Jesse Paris-Smith on piano, along with Mountain Stage Band members Ammed Solomon on drums and Steve Hill on bass.

You can hear Patti Smith & Family's entire performance, plus sets from Van William, Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore feat. Lucy & Brigid Moore, Robbie Fulks, and a special Tribute to Little Jimmy Dickens featuring Tim O'Brien, Charlie McCoy, and more, on this week's encore episode of Mountain Stage.

Finale Song Performers
Credit Brian Blauser/ Mountain Stage
From Left to Right: Tim O'Brien, Jupie Little (of The Carpenter Ants), Robbie Fulks, Mollie O'Brien, Brigid and Lucy Moore, Lenny Kaye and Jesse Paris-Smith.

Check out the playlist and find out where you can listen to this week’s special encore episode of Mountain Stage.

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Updated: July 1, 2021 at 10:05 AM EDT
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Updated: July 1, 2021 at 9:00 AM EDT
Executive Producer of Mountain Stage, adam@mountainstage.org, 304-556-4900, @mtnadam

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