The singer-songwriter lost his dad in a plane crash before he turned two. Now 50, A.J. Croce is turning to the music that his father, Jim Croce, made famous, and in the process is embracing his father's legacy - and his own.
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" topped the charts in July of 1973, two months before Croce died in a plane crash after a concert in Natchitoches, Louisiana."You know, I have this memory of the warmth of embrace, you know?" A.J. replied."And while it's not visual for me, it's palpable."Nowhere more powerful than at a farmhouse outside Philadelphia, where A.J.
His father gone, his mother, Ingrid, got involved with a man who brutally beat A.J., leaving him blind."During that time I sat at the piano, I played along to the radio, whatever was on my little transistor radio, whether it was ELO or McCartney or Stones or Elton John." During the next 35 years, he'd regain partial sight; play the piano with everyone from Ray Charles to Willie Nelson; and develop his own reputation as a songwriter. If he hadn't found a way to fully escape the shadow of his father, he figured out a way to live adjacent to it."And you didn't have anything to prove to anyone, and so maybe it was a little easier to embrace your father's stuff?"Which is how this singer finally got to this stage, where Croce now plays Croce.
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