Produced by Mike Villers, this double CD with 12 songs per disc starts off with a smashing "Nothing Is True" by a band named after John Lennon ex-girlfriend and wife of producer Tony Visconti, May Pang. The band Mae Pang lifts this song, and album, into a realm of interpretation matched by the other groups here -- and it is this solid interpretation that few tribute discs deliver. Rather than copy Jimi Hendrix or the Eagles as other artists covering well-known songs in collections called tribute sometimes do, these performers -- mostly unknown -- breathe new life into material that never sounded this good. Jim Carroll is an enigma. His life well-known thanks to the film and book The Basketball Diaries, his initial claim to fame was asking for drugs on the Bridget Polk tapes which became the first legit rock bootleg LP in history, The Velvet Underground Live at Maxs Kansas City on Atlantic -- Judy Garland's posthumous Live London 1969 perhaps being the first audience cassette to make it to a major label. The casting of the star of Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio to play Carroll misleads the general public in regards to Carroll -- DiCaprio is not exactly Keith Richards but that's Hollywood. This double CD puts things into a more proper perspective. Most of it recorded in Richboro, PA, it features diverse bands like Burn Witch Burn who perform "Still Life," borrowed by Genus from Razzler Records. Thorazine, listed courtesy of Hell Yeah Records, has fun doing the short "Three Sisters." A terrific version of "People Who Died." ~ Joe Viglione, All Music Guide