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Jim Roll

Jim Roll

Novel collaboration

by Judson Branam

posted 3/1/2002

Jim Roll has long been known as a literate and sometimes witheringly honest folk-rock wordsmith, and on his third CD, Inhabiting the Ball, he raises the literary stakes by taking on noted novelists Denis Johnson and Rick Moody as collaborators. Eight of the CD's eighteen songs feature lyrics by Johnson and Moody, and these, together with Roll's broad

 
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