Alter Boy: Jim Carroll Rising
From Catholic boyto catholic man, writer and rocker Jim Carroll Jim Carroll SW: You have some Seattle connections: Pearl Jam and 7 Year Bitch have recorded your Carroll: I re-recorded the song “Catholic Boy” with Pearl Jam for the SW: The New York Times ran your poem “8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain,” and it I might have been romanticizing part of his life–his genius, his music. I don’t see SW: Tell me about the current tour. It’s a solo, spoken-word format? Seattle’s a little different, because I probably will do a few songs in Seattle. SW: A lot of your work is being released all at once. Did you suddenly become very Aside from the Kurt Cobain poem and a couple of others, the poems were all written in SW: What made you decide to do music again? I liked this one song Robert [Roth] had given me. He sent me the DAT from Seattle, and SW: How do you go about adding music to your spoken-word pieces? Ginsberg. I came to the studio when he was doing the spoken-word thing. He’d read, SW: Are there any poems you’ve written that you wouldn’t read aloud? I like to think that I’ve had a natural quality of lyricism in my work. But any poem SW: You’ve been around long enough to see the various mutations of punk rock. Do you I always thought that the spirit of so-called grunge was the culmination of what © 1999 Seattle Weekly. All rights reserved.
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