The Jim Carroll Band

The Jim Carroll Band was an American rock group formed in 1978 around poet and writer Jim Carroll. Their music blended punk and new wave energy with a spoken-word influenced vocal delivery and literate, confessional lyrics drawn from Carroll's background as a poet and memoirist. The band's sound featured driving guitars and propulsive rhythms, placing them at the intersection of punk rock and literary performance during the late 1970s and early 1980s.