You don't mess around with Jim
Croce's influence on me, a half-century later
On this day 50 years ago, singer-songwriter Jim Croce died as his plane crashed into a tree during takeoff. Croce was 30 years old.
We wrote about it last year.
If I could save time in a bottle
The music of the 1980s was, to me, defined as a decade of cassette tapes. My family did not have a lot of them, but what we did have got played a lot, and frankly a good deal of the tunes were from the 1960s and 70s. Greatest Hits were popular with my father. He’d pop in a Kenny Rogers tape or
We got quite a bit of feedback from this post. Not much engagement on Substack, but people—mostly old friends—writing me emails and text messages with memories of Croce's music, our family's van, …
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