A li'l sumthin' fer th weekend...

Jim Carroll has long been one of my favorite Rock 'n' Roll poets - both his music and spoken word and his combinations of the two -

and while sometimes i can get a little anxious listening to a full length, the little Runaway EP from around 2000 is just the perfect length. And his backing band - is fantastic. including members of Truly - Robert Roth and Hiro Yamamoto (who also did time in Soundgarden)- as well as Mark Pickerel, Brian Young (Posies / Walkabouts), Kurt Bloch (hello Seattle!) and Gary Valentine (Blondie!!).... not an easy mix to beat.

by the same token - don't look at this as the best representation of Carroll's work - it's not his cleanest, or his noisiest, or his most emotionally hard hitting - it still holds his punk ideals strong, and by that i mean - he's doing things the way he wants to do them, and that sounds good enough to me. besides - personally - i love this song.

so yeah, it's Friday evening - and it's time to Runaway....