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Opinions on Music, Culture and the goings on at our music company, Blister Records.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Yrgal, Ooda, and Ferris, check it out

Some dude playin Chitlins Con Carne

Pandora

it's all public

Jim caroll

ces, Jim Carroll's crowning achievement was the near-hit "People Who Died," a brutally emotional punk record saluting the victims of the New York drug culture. In truth, however, Carroll's artistic legacy was considerably more complex and far-ranging -- an acclaimed diarist, poet, actor, and spoken word performer, his formative years even served as the subject of the film The Basketball Diaries.

The product of a working-class background, Carroll was born and raised in New York City. He was a highly touted basketball prospect, and Jack Kerouac's On the Road inspired him to begin keeping a journal at the age of 12; later published in 1978 as The Basketball Diaries, his early writings vividly chronicled his teenage addiction to heroin, which led him into a life of crime and hustling. By the time he was 16, Carroll was a published poet; 1973's Living at the Movies further established his reputation as a prodigy and funded a move to Northern California, where he was finally able to shed his drug habit.

Inspired by the success of his friend Patti Smith, who also married a background in poetry with a career in rock music, Carroll began writing songs; in 1978, backed by the San Francisco band Amsterdam (comprised of guitarists Terrell Winn and Brian Linsley, bassist Steve Linsley, and drummer Wayne Woods), he cut a handful of demos, and was signed to Rolling Stones Records.
Selected Discography
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Friendy McFrienderso n says: 05-09-2010
Put people who died on repeat, and let the circle of life rotate.
floydzoot says: 02-24-2010
GREAT SONG
Heather Cann says: 11-04-2009
An amazing man~ with an untouched gift for stringing words together. Wish Pandora had some of his spoken word.
jpollack06 says: 09-25-2009
This album is still one of my all time favorites. People who died and It's too Late are on my ipod. I still have my 20 year old copy of Baketball Dairies.
audeg6 says: 09-19-2009
It is all so good
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