The Jim Carroll Band: Catholic Boy (Atco)
Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 31 January 1981
BLOND, FLESHLY-FACED and 30 years old, Jim Carroll was slated for status as a rock poet back in '71. Meant to be the other half of the Patti Smith/Lenny Kaye bill at St Mark's Church, Carroll missed that historic first fusion of rock and verse for a night in the clink when some dealer friends he called upon got busted.
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