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Catholic Boy

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Released
  
January 3, 1980

Length
  
38:26

Release date
  
3 January 1980

Recorded
  
June - August 1979

Catholic Boy (1980)
  
Dry Dreams (1982)

Label
  
Atco Records

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Artists
  
Jim Carroll, The Jim Carroll Band

Genres
  
Rock music, Punk rock, New wave

Producers
  
Earl McGrath, Bob Clearmountain

Similar
  
Other Roads, Live at Max's Kansas C, Owsley, Slade in Flame, John Farnham & Tom Jone

The jim carroll band catholic boy


Catholic Boy (1980) is the debut album by The Jim Carroll Band, led by Jim Carroll who is notable for publishing the 1978 memoir The Basketball Diaries,, and poetry collections including Living at the Movies. It spawned two FM hits, "It's Too Late" and "People Who Died" (about friends of the singer who died before their time). The front cover photograph was taken by Annie Leibovitz.

Contents

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Track listing

  1. "Wicked Gravity" (Jim Carroll) – 4:56
  2. "Three Sisters" (Carroll, Terrell Winn) – 3:19
  3. "Day and Night" (Carroll, Allen Lanier) – 2:22
  4. "Nothing Is True" (Carroll, Brian Linsley) – 3:29
  5. "People Who Died" (Carroll, Brian Linsley, Stephen Linsley, Terrell Winn, Wayne Woods) – 4:59
  6. "City Drops into the Night" (Carroll, Stephen Linsley, Brian Linsley) – 7:23
  7. "Crow" (Carroll, Terrell Winn) – 3:02
  8. "It's Too Late" (Carroll, Wayne Woods) – 3:04
  9. "I Want the Angel" (Carroll, Brian Linsley) – 2:49
  10. "Catholic Boy" (Carroll) – 3:03

Personnel

  • Jim Carroll – vocals
  • Brian Linsley – guitar
  • Stephen Linsley – bass
  • Terrell Winn – guitar
  • Wayne Woods – drums

    • Additional personnel

  • Allen Lanier – keyboards on "Day and Night" & "I Want the Angel"
  • Bobby Keys – saxophone on "City Drops into the Night"
  • Amy Kanter – vocal on "Day and Night"
  • Sally, Hilary, Neon, Janet – backing vocals on "People Who Died"
    • Technical
  • Bob Clearmountain - engineer, co-production
  • Jason Corsaro, Jeffrey Norman - assistant engineers
  • Annie Leibovitz, Earl McGrath, Sandi Young - art direction

    • Charts

    Album

    Cover versions

    "People Who Died" has been covered multiple times: John Cale on the album Antártida (1995), Drive-By Truckers on the live album Alabama Ass Whuppin' (2000), Lordz of Brooklyn on the album The Brooklyn Way (2006), and Willie Nile on the album American Ride (2013). In 2014, Gwar appended a version of "People Who Died" onto their cover of the Pet Shop Boys song "West End Girls" for The A.V. Club's Undercover series, with lyrics paying tribute to their recently deceased singer, Oderus Urungus (aka Dave Brockie).

    "Catholic Boy" was played by Jim Carroll with Pearl Jam as backing band on the The Basketball Diaries OST (1995).

    Songs

    1Wicked Gravity4:57
    2Three Sisters3:19
    3Day and Night2:22

    References

    Catholic Boy Wikipedia
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