{"id":10127,"date":"2025-06-05T21:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T04:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/?page_id=10127"},"modified":"2025-06-05T21:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T04:20:27","slug":"shim-sham-club-new-orleans-la-2001-review-by-david-kunian","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/performance-reviews\/shim-sham-club-new-orleans-la-2001-review-by-david-kunian\/","title":{"rendered":"Shim Sham Club (New Orleans, LA), 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jim Carroll at Shim Sham Club
New Orleans, LA 7 February 2001
Offbeat<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Feb. 2001
Review by David Kunian<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can quote Jim Carroll better than I can quote myself, so when my hero came to New Orleans, I was pumped and primed. Carroll’s reading style is quirky to say the least. He still sounds like the stoned Upper Manhattanite that he was for so many years. His voice inhabits his pieces like a long lost friend with an edge, giving them shading and depth and even more humor than the words on the page provide. The crowd was with him all the way. He read several pieces from his second diary,\u00a0Forced Entries<\/em>, including the one about him and Patti Smith racing their crotch crabs. The poems came at the end, and he read two of my favorites: “My Ruins,” where the subject will only allow himself to destroy himself, and “8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain,” which was the best reflection of Cobain’s life of all the drivel that came out when he offed himself. As an added bonus, he sang “I Want the Angel” from one of the best albums ever,\u00a0Catholic Boy<\/em>, as his final piece.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Carroll at Shim Sham ClubNew Orleans, LA 7 February 2001Offbeat\u00a0Feb. 2001Review by David Kunian I can quote Jim Carroll better than I can quote myself, so when my hero came to New Orleans, I was pumped and primed. Carroll’s reading style is quirky to say the least. He still sounds like the stoned Upper … Continue reading Shim Sham Club (New Orleans, LA), 2001<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3985,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-10127","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-2Dl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9801,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/photos-video-audio\/photo-gallery\/jim-carroll-at-the-shim-sham-club-new-orleans-2001\/","url_meta":{"origin":10127,"position":0},"title":"Jim Carroll at the Shim Sham Club, New Orleans, 2001","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"May 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Photos by Jeremy Deible","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10123,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/performance-reviews\/shim-sham-club-new-orleans-la-2001-review-by-herman-snell\/","url_meta":{"origin":10127,"position":1},"title":"Shim Sham Club (New Orleans, LA), 2001","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"June 5, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Jim Carroll at Shim Sham ClubNew Orleans, LA, 7 February 2001Review by\u00a0Herman Snell With years of dream excitement building to this 71 degree night, in front row left I sat with my backpack filled with books and notebooks, with the crowd ecclectic @ my rear. 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