Thoughts of Jim Croce Tonight & Favorite Singers
I'm a huge Jim Croce fan. My friend Larry will attest to this fact, as he is also a big Jim Croce fan. Tonight while I was playing poker online, I was listening to launch.com and they played a song by him, so I did a search and found the official Jim Croce website. What a terrific find. There's a video there of Croce performing "Operator" live that just about transcends the medium. It's far better than what you even should be able to watch and listen to on a computer, and I just watched and listened to the song in a kind of open-mouthed wonder.
Who are some of my other favorite singers these days? John Prine is right up there toward the top of the list. I love Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin very much too. Neil Diamond is terrific. Lately I've been listening to quite a bit of Gordon Lightfoot too. As far as country music goes, I couldn't imagine life without Willie Nelson, or Merle Haggard, or Chris Ledoux. (And yeah, I did cry when he passed away.)
Some of the local talent here in Texas that I truly love: Brian Houser, Brian Burns, Max Stalling, Chris Wall. If you're interested in a list of Americana musicians, the Beer Bytch has a pretty neat list of artists available too. (I was lucky enough to dance with the Beer Bytch one night at the Top Rail Saloon about five years ago. I'm sure she doesn't remember me.)
Anyway, I guess tonight's post is just stream of conscious nothingness, but I guess there's room for some of that on the internet too. Funny thing...I was reading on Roger Ebert's website the other day about how movies can enrich our lives, not just help us get through them, and that's kind of how I'm feeling about music tonight.
Labels: music
posted by Randy Ray @ 8:23 PM
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Go to Croce's Restaurant in San Diego and you will have a very good chance of meeting Ingrid...she is there almost every night....lots of memorabilia on the walls....quite an experience for the true Croce fan
JUst wanted to say hello and thank you for the press about my site! I'm sorry I do not remember dancing with you, but I was probably a bit 'runnnk otherwise I wouldn't be dancing.. but anyone that quotes Thoreau and loves Max Stalling And Brian Burns (part of BB's "holy Trinity".. Max, Brian & Jay Johnson) You gotta be one HELLUVA good guy!
Beer Bytch
Just played a version of "Operator" (for the first time in about 20 years!) in a teacher band I am in when we have a whim. It brought down the house, which shocked me! Most people there were too young, I thought, to really appreciate the genius of Jim. But they loved it! I just did the pickin' and the band teacher did the singing, but it was great. So now I've been obsessively relistening to all of my favorites.
Jim Croce was one of the main reasons I learned how to play guitar.
My dream is to go to Croce's restaurant.
Thanks for the chance to reminisce.
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