When Legends Collide (2023)
By: Blue Coupe
Label: Self-released
This effort by Blue Oyster Cult and Alice Cooper alums includes “Angel’s Well,” which features early Carroll lyrics.
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Yes I Ram (1999)
By: Jon Tiven Group
Label: New West
Carroll contributes backing vocals on “Jesse” and “Differing Touch,” which he cowrote with Jon and Sally Tiven.
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Feeling You Up (1997)
By: Truly
Label: Symbiotic/Thick
Carroll contributed lyrics to “Repulsion.”
Trivia: Truly member Robert Roth is featured on Carroll’s Runaway EP and Pools of Mercury.
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. . . And Out Come the Wolves (1995)
By: Rancid
Label: Epitaph
Carroll reads an original poem in the middle of Rancid’s
song “Junkyman,” contributing the album’s title.
Carroll hooked up with Rancid in the studio while doing a radio call-in show at Electric Ladyland Studio on 8th St. in NYC’s Village (with a hook-up to the Posies & Soundgarden guys in Bad Animals studio in Seattle) to promote the Basketball Diaries film soundtrack.
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Back to the Streets: Celebrating the Music of Don Covay (1993)
By: Various Artists
Label: Shanachie
This tribute to Don Covay, produced by Jon Tiven and Joe Ferry, features Robert Cray, Gary “U.S.” Bonds, Johnny Kemp, Ben E. King, Iggy Pop, Todd Rundgren, Billy Squier, Mick Taylor, Ron Wood, Nona Hendryx, Johnny Colla, Corey Glover, Chuck St. Troy, Barrence Whitfield, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Arlene Smith. Jim Carroll sings “Long Tall Shorty.”
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Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology (1992)
By: Lou Reed
Label: RCA
Carroll makes a guest appearance on this album, doing background vocals.
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Other Roads (1998)
By: Boz Scaggs
Label: Sony/Columbia
Carroll wrote the lyrics for “What’s Number One,” “I Don’t Hear You,” and “Crimes of Passion” .
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Club Ninja (1986)
By: Blue Oyster Cult
Label: Koch Records
Carroll wrote the lyrics for “Perfect Water.”
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Live at Max’s Kansas City (1972)
By: Velvet Underground
Label: Atlantic
Although Jim Carroll is not credited in the liner notes, his voice can be heard very clearly between songs. He held the microphone recording the now-legendary performance.
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