Patty Smyth announces her first album of brand new, original music in 28 years. Out October 9th on BMG, It's About Time pairs the same passion and ferocity the Grammy and Oscar nominee first introduced as the lead singer of Scandal with the hard-earned wisdom she's gained from decades of touring, writing, acting for film, and raising six kids with husband John McEnroe. Recorded in Nashville's Blackbird Studios and produced by Grammy-winner Dann Huff (Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, Kelly Clarkson), these six songs - plus covers of Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe" and Tom Waits' "Downtown Train" - declare Smyth's return to rock n roll as an artist who has embraced a new stage of life, but hasn't shed the resolute and rambunctious defiance of her youth.