Artist	Song
Jim Croce	Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
from Life and Times (2008)
Jim Croce	Time In a Bottle
from You Don't Mess Around With Jim (2008)
Jim Croce	You Don't Mess Around With Jim
from You Don't Mess Around With Jim (2008)
Jim Croce	Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)
from You Don't Mess Around With Jim (2008)
Jim Croce	I'll Have to Say I Love You In a Song
from I Got a Name (2008)
Jim Croce	I Got a Name
from I Got a Name (2008)
Jim Croce	Photographs and Memories
from You Don't Mess Around With Jim (2008)
Jim Croce	Working at the Car Wash Blues
from I Got a Name (2008)
Jim Croce	Lover's Cross
from I Got a Name (2008)
Jim Croce	Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)
from You Don't Mess Around With Jim (2008)
Jim Croce	One Less Set of Footsteps
from Life and Times (2008)
Jim Croce	New York's Not My Home
from You Don't Mess Around With Jim (2008)
Jim Croce	Roller Derby Queen
from Life and Times (2008)
Jim Croce	It Doesn't Have to Be That Way
from Life and Times (2008)
Jim Croce	These Dreams
from Life and Times (2008)

Comment:

When acoustic guitar-strumming storytellers ruled pop radio, hit-maker Jim Croce brought a sly huckster's grin to the earnest singer-songwriter scene, with wisecracking tall tales of larger-than-life characters like "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and the pool-shooting, tough-talking bully of "You Don't Mess Around With Jim." But Croce could tug mightily on the heartstrings too, without sinking into sentimentality. His precision-tooled portraits of love lost ("Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)"), won ("Time In a Bottle"), and blown to smithereens ("One Less Set of Footsteps") all glow with a warm humanity and guy-next-door easiness. So, whether you love the Jim Croce who spun grin-worthy shaggy-dog stories or the one who turned pangs of passion into pure pop poetry — or [i]both[/i] — you'll find the master songsmith's biggest tuneful triumphs right here.

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