CROCE PLAYS CROCE 50th ANNIVERSARY (FULL CONCERT) - TROY, NY 2/10/2024

The Croce Plays Croce 50th Anniversary show features a legendary band (including drummer Gary Mallaber, bassist David Barard, guitar/violin James Pennebaker) and a moving multi-media presentation accompanying Jim’s songs.

AJ Croce is a multi-faceted singer/songwriter a gifted multi-instrumentalist who is known for one of the most unique keyboard styles in music.

The two Jim Croce albums that turn 50 in 2023 are considered among Croce’s finest, with Life and Times, originally released in January of 1973, delivering the game-changing hit “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” which became the Songwriter’s Hall Of Fame inductee’s calling card, hitting #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100, and ranked as the #2 song for all of 1973. I Got A Name was his final studio album (and the first posthumous release by Jim), with the title song being released the day after his tragic plane crash which occurred on September 20, 1973. The album also featured the smash hit ballad “I’ll Have to Say I Love You In A Song,” and “Workin’ At The Car Wash Blues,” among others.

BMG has 50th Anniversary Editions of Life and Times and I Got A Name planned for release in the summer. These will be limited color vinyl pressings of each album to celebrate this momentous anniversary and a special box set, among other promotions.

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00:00:10 – Intro by Jim Croce
00:01:50 – You Don’t Mess Around with Jim
00:05:02 – Roller Derby Queen
00:11:42 – Better Day
00:15:41 – Box #10
00:21:59 – Operator
00:31:17 - Nothing Can Change This Love (Sam Cooke Cover)
00:24:10 – Nothing from Nothing
00:40:40 – Band Introductions
00:47:15 – ‘whistle’
00:50:45 – Rollin’ On
00:58:44 – Give Me Back My Heart
01:06:38 – Judgment Day
01:12:37 – Working at the Car Wash Blues
01:18:48 – Lover’s Cross
01:22:28 – Walking Back to Georgia
01:25:31 – Speedball Trucker
01:28:28 – New York’s Not My Home
01:30:27 – I’ll Have to Say I Love You
01:33:00 – One Less Set of Footsteps
01:42:11 – Rapid Roy (That Stock Car Boy)
01:49:46 – So Much Fun
01:52:47 – Call of Love
01:55:57 – Bad Leroy Brown
02:00:07 – I Got a Name
02:04:12 – Time In a Bottle