The Way We Used to Be. Country Girl. Ol' Man River. Tomorrow's Gonna Be a Brighter Day. Workin' at the Car Wash Blues. A Long Time Ago. Top Hat Bar and Grill. The Hard Way Every Time. Five Short Minutes. Cotton Mouth River. Next Time, This Time. Box, No. Stone Walls. Circle of Style. Carnival of Pride. Wear Out the Turnpike. Can't Wait. The Migrant Worker. Railroad Song.
Child of Midnight. It wasn't until his freshman year of college that he began to take music seriously, forming several bands over the next few years. On November 29, Croce met his future wife Ingrid Jacobson at the Philadelphia Convention Hall during a hootenanny, where he was judging a contest.
After graduation, he continued to play various gigs at local bars and parties, working as both a teacher and construction worker to support himself and his wife, Ingrid. Croce released his first album, Facets, in , with copies pressed. They hoped that he would give up music after the album failed, and use his college education to pursue a "respectable" profession.
However, the album proved a success, with every copy sold. Croce quickly followed with Life and Times in early and gained his first number one hit with "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. After four years of gruelling tour schedules, Croce grew homesick. Wishing to spend more time with Ingrid and his infant son Adrian James, he planned to take a break after the Life and Times tour was completed.
Tragically, the tour would never finish; just two months after "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" topped the charts, Croce's plane crashed in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Terry Cashman - vocals. Gary Chester - drums. This album released in early , in my opinion was one of the best ever released. I was a big Croache fan from the beginning and found the folky style of this album to be a joy to have. Some of the songs are sad but the world Jim was living then was sad too.
We only write what we feel in songwriting. After graduation in , Croce worked on construction crews and taught guitar at a summer camp. He joined the U. Army National Guard for a short stint ostensibly to avoid the draft and also worked as a teacher at a junior high school in South Philadelphia. Croce met his future wife, Ingrid Jacobson, at a folk music party.
They wed in , the same year that Croce released a self-issued solo album, Facets. From the mids to early s, Croce and Jacobson performed as a duo. At first, they sang covers by musicians like Joan Baez and Woody Guthrie, but were soon writing their own music.
Croce landed a regular gig at a steak house in Lima, Pennsylvania. West introduced the couple to Terry Cashman, who helped produce their first album, Croce. Over the next two years, they drove more than , miles, playing college and coffeehouse circuits and collecting guitars. Croce and his wife became disillusioned with both the music business and New York City, so they sold their guitars and moved to the Pennsylvania countryside of Lyndell, where they had their son, Adrian James, in Jacobson learned to bake bread and can fruits and vegetables.
Croce got a job driving trucks and working construction, and continued to write songs, often about the people he would meet at bars and truck stops while working. In , one of Croce's former college friends, Joe Salviuolo, also known as Sal Joseph, introduced Croce to Maury Muehleisen, a classically trained pianist, guitarist and singer-songwriter from Trenton, New Jersey. Sal encouraged the duo to get together and record new songs, and to send them to ABC Records.
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