Jim Croce would have been 82 years old last Friday.
There’s a very special magic at work in Croce’s songs. The blend of lyrics, guitar playing, and his slightly gravely tenor voice with his expert way of not always hitting the note dead on but rather sliding into it…damn that plane crash.
The live performances really get to me nowadays. I don’t know his life story, but every time I watch him perform, it looks like every note of every song is engraved on his heart someplace.
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I own 3 of his LPs.
I saw this at the time: Father and son: A.J. Croce performs Jim Croce’s music
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The singer-songwriter lost his dad in a plane crash before he turned two, temporarily lost his sight when he was four, and lost his wife to a heart condition. Now 50, musician and songwriter A.J. Croce is turning to the music that his father, Jim Croce, had made famous, and in the process is embracing his father’s legacy – and his own. Correspondent Jim Axelrod reports. Air Date: Jun 19, 2022 https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/j9rXuHvCr_1CZqpT6XR_XHkMUZmmDQpX/
Ooooh, thanks for that! I’ll try to remember to watch it tomorrow morning over coffee!