Remember Jim Carroll for his music

The author and poet was best known for writing The Basketball Diaries, but he was also an accomplished musician who combined primitive punk with prose-like lyricsJim Carroll was always more famous for his life than his work. The obituaries that have followed his death since last Friday have focused on his book, the Basketball Diaries, his account of the disintegration of his youthful life as he became addicted to heroin in the 1960s.This seems a shame. Watching him play live a few years ago I re...

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