Catholic Boy

Infobox Album
Name = Catholic Boy
Type = Studio album
Artist = The Jim Carroll Band


Released = 1980
Recorded = ???
Genre = Rock
Length = 38:26
Label = Atco
Producer = Earl McGrath and Bob Clearmountain
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:m9c8b5p4tsqe link]
*Creem [http://www.catholicboy.com/PDF/Creem_CB_Feb1981.pdf link]
*Robert Christgau (B+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=jim+carroll link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jimcarroll/albums/album/261609/rid/5940355/ link]
Last album =
This album = "Catholic Boy" (1980)
Next album = "Dry Dreams" (1982)

"Catholic Boy" (1980) is an album by The Jim Carroll Band. Carroll was notable for publishing a memoir, "The Basketball Diaries," and poetry collections including "Living at the Movies". It spawned two FM hits, "It's Too Late," in this case, "to fall in love with Sharon Tate," but more that it is too late to understand the attitudes of beautiful, rich and bored women. "People Who Died," is about friends of the singers who died before their time.

Track listing

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

Personnel

*Jim Carroll – vocals
*Brian Linsley – guitar
*Steve 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 Katner – vocal on "Day and Night"
*Sally, Hilary, Neon, Janet – backing vocals on "People Who Died"

Charts

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