Biography

Dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker Jim Carroll found success as a writer of prose and poetry in his teens. Inspired by the burgeoning NY punk scene and the poetry/music crossover of his literary pal Patti Smith, he formed the Jim Carroll Band in the late-'70s, initially releasing three albums of poetic, Lou Reed-inspired post-punk. Despite a fluke hit ("People Who Died") on his first album, Carroll's musical career wasn't as successful as his literary endeavors and he eventually returned to writing. The occasional musical foray notwithstanding, he remains a renowned author.

Top Tracks

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• 8 Fragments For Kurt Cobain

• Differing Touch

• Dry Dreams

• Falling Down Laughing

• Hairshirt Fracture

• Hold Back The Dream

• I Want The Angel

• I Write Your Name

• People Who Died

• Runaway

• Them

• Train Surfing

• Voices

• Wicked Gravity

Discography

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• Pools of Mercury

  Mercury / Polygram

  1998

• Praying Mantis

  Noble Rot

  1991

• I Write Your Name

  Atlantic

  1983

• Catholic Boy

  Atco

  1980