Catching Up with Jim Carroll (NY Rock)
Score: 90
Rosemary eventually introduced him to the San Francisco art/punk/poetry community and it wasn't long before Jim was back onstage again, only with a rock'n'roll band instead of a book of poems. Jim Carroll has a new band, all pudgy faced babies in comparison to their leader, who at 48 is as youthful as a former high school athlete turned poet/junkie/rock star can be and is on tour to support Carroll's new CD Pools of Mercury and book Void of Course. Never having seen Jim Carroll in person, ...