Monday, September 14, 2009

Jim Carroll Died

He sure did.

Seriously though, he was an accomplished artist who I haven't gotten around to exploring seriously yet. I mostly revere him for writing this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBbuPnfG0Vo

The Drive By Truckers often play it as an encore. They played it at the Macon show I saw last month. When somebody plays that song seriously it's an amazingly cathartic thing, as it was in Macon when Patterson started yelling and hollering about the people he had recently lost.

R.I.P. Jim Carroll.

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