Home Recordings: Americana

Product Description
When Jim Croce died tragically in a plane crash on Sept. 20, 1973, he was just thirty years old and had recently been recognized as one of the most promising artists of his era. From only three original studio releases he earned two #1 singles, six more Top 40 singles and a #1 album.

Home Recordings: Americana features the best of America’s roots songs, from country to blues, written by Merle Haggard, Lefty Frizzell, Jimmie Rodgers, Brownie McGhee and others, and recorded by Jim in his Pennsylvania home on a Wollensak recorder. Shared by his family for the first time, these are intimate, revealing songs made all the more emotional as a result of Jim’s life cut short.

Home Recordings: Americana is the first album of unreleased material in 30 years and features liner notes written by wife Ingrid and son A.J. Croce.

Home Recordings: Americana,Jim Croce,Shout Factory,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,Singer/Songwriter,Soft Rock

---

Home Recordings: Americana

Average customer rating: Where has this been? Just for the record TIMELESS PIECE OF JIM'S MUSICAL LEGACY Don't Believe the Hype This is a HOME RECORDING, it is AMERICANA to a T

Home Recordings: Americana Jim Croce Manufacturer: Shout Factory ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music | Dance Pop | Easy Listening | General | Oldies | Traditional Vocalists Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Facets Have You Heard - Jim Croce Live Final Tour Live Have You Heard Jim Croce Live Jim Croce - 50th Anniversary Collection ASIN: B0000DD78U Release Date: 2003-10-14

Tracks:

1. Living With The Blues
2. Things 'Bout Goin' My Way
3. Nobody Loves A Fat Girl
4. You Oughta See Pickles Now
5. Cigarettes, Whiskey And Wild Wild Women
6. In The Jailhouse Now
7. If The Backdoor Could Talk
8. Who Will Buy The Wine
9. Mom And Dad's Waltz
10. The Wall
11. Sadie Green (The Vamp Of New Orleans)
12. I've Got Mine
13. Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
14. Six Days On The Road
15. Mama Tried

Album Description

When Jim Croce died tragically in a plane crash on Sept. 20, 1973, he was just thirty years old and had recently been recognized as one of the most promising artists of his era. From only three original studio releases he earned two #1 singles, six more Top 40 singles and a #1 album.

Home Recordings: Americana features the best of America's roots songs, from country to blues, written by Merle Haggard, Lefty Frizzell, Jimmie Rodgers, Brownie McGhee and others, and recorded by Jim in his Pennsylvania home on a Wollensak recorder. Shared by his family for the first time, these are intimate, revealing songs made all the more emotional as a result of Jim's life cut short.

Home Recordings: Americana is the first album of unreleased material in 30 years and features liner notes written by wife Ingrid and son A.J. Croce.

Customer Reviews:

Where has this been?.......2004-09-26

I was a fan of Jim Croce before he died. I played my 45 of "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" so many times during the Summer of '73 that I darn near wore it out. When he died that September it seemed terribly unfair to me. I was just just discovering and learning to appreciate this man's music, and now he was gone.

It became easy back then to collect virtually every song that Croce ever recorded. There simply wasn't that much: Three studio albums, an earlier album that he recorded with his wife and a small collection of leftovers that had never been released. That was it. You could play it all in a few hours on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

Of course, this small collection of music was packaged and repackaged over and over in the years after his death. His greatest hits, his greatest love songs, his greatest character songs...you name it. With no new recordings possible the record companies did the best they could with what was available.

So who would have possibly thought that over 30 years later an entire album of unreleased material could be put into a new CD? When I first heard of "Home Recordings" I feared the worst. Bad quality. Bad songs. I would defintely have to avoid this album.

I am very glad that I did NOT avoid this album.

No, the quality is not that of a studio album. But for a "kitchen table" recording it sounds surprisingly good. And while nothing on this album is going to replace "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" as my all-time favorite Croce recording, I am quite surprised by how much I do enjoy these songs. In fact, I find myself singing "You Oughta See Pickles Now" quite often in the shower these days.

If you are a fan of Jim Croce put away your hesitations and pick up this album. You won't regret it.

Just for the record.......2004-04-14

Just for the record Jim Croce died in Natchitoches (pronounced Nat - chi - tush), LA on the Northwestern State University (NSU) campus. I know. I was at his last concert. 45 minutes after the concert while sitting on the bed and 5 of us talking how he sang as if he knew he wouldn't live to be very old, we got the news that he died when his plane didn't gain altitude.
He sang from the heart and soul and that's what everyone liked. His music is down to earth and speaks to almost any one.
He was a great musician and was on the rise at the time of his demise.

TIMELESS PIECE OF JIM'S MUSICAL LEGACY.......2004-02-15

This new collection is a treasure trove of never before released recordings. What makes this collection special is that these songs were recorded by Jim at his kitchen table. These unpolished recordings reveal deep honesty and muscial sincerity. It's nice to listen to these recordings, especially after Jim has been gone for so long. Any true Jim Croce fan's collection is not complete without this CD,it's a great find!

Don't Believe the Hype.......2004-01-25

OK -- so it's rough and raw, untouched and unproduced; that's why we love it, right?! Croce and folk/bluegrass fans will delight in this gem, honestly recorded in a private time at Jim Croce's kitchen table. It's nice to hear new Croce versions of "In The Jailhouse Now" and "Mama Tried" -- wholesome, good-time dancing music. "Mom And Dad's Waltz" and "The Wall" are beautiful and touching. Anyone who loves Croce or bluegrass/roots/folk music will love this album. Snatch it up!

This is a HOME RECORDING, it is AMERICANA to a T.......2004-01-22

With every new artist coming out today with there crystal clean sounds and studio tricks, many people long for "their old stuff". Their old stuff was made when they didn't have quite the same sheen and radio friendliness as they have now, but much more emotion and rawness. Jim Croce's old stuff is what it says it is. OLD STUFF. Old as in scratchy covers recorded on an old recorder in an old home in Pennsylvania, before Jim was an established radio friendly studio artist. You're not going to here Bad Bad Leroy Brown, or Time in A Bottle, but you will hear and feel the heart of a man who recorded such songs in a time before he was produced, remastered, and thrown to the public. Many may say this stuff never should have left the house, and that someone should have remastered, or cleaned it up, but I think if that were the case, it would have lost it's appeal. Although it isn't really new Jim Croce, it is new to us.

Average customer rating:

D. Boon and Friends D. Boon and Friends Manufacturer: box-o-plenty ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: We Jam Econo - The Story of the Minutemen Post-Mersh, Vol. 3 Ballot Result Post-Mersh, Vol. 2 West ASIN: B0002537YE Release Date: 2003-09-09

Album Description

2003 release from Box-O-Plenty for the former guitarist of the 80's So-Cal punk band the Minutemen, Dennes Dale Boon, whose life was tragically cut short in an automobile accident in 1985. Features 33 tracks including jams with Crane & Richard Derrick (1984-85), Hammerdown live at the Music Machine (1984), Boon live at The Lhasa Club (1984) , The Minutemen live at UCLA (1985) & one track 'Many As One' recorded by Boon at home (1985).

Average customer rating:

Unsound Vol. 2: Guitars! Various Artists Manufacturer: To M'lou Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music Power Pop | Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00003L9KJ Release Date: 1999-09-01

Tracks:

1. Ian Whitcomb - I'm Sure of Everything But You
2. Kurt Reil - Over the Edge
3. Mark Johnson - Wand of Willow
4. Randell Kirsch - California Sleepwalking
5. Cranbury Sauce - Girl of My Best Friend (Pitea Version)
6. John McMullan - She Wants Money
7. Tennessee Tuxedo - Man of Simple Taste
8. Rockville Rangers - Annabelle
9. Todd Shuster - An Expiration Date
10. Phil Angotti - The Knack
11. Lasse Hindberg - I still Feel the Pain
12. Jim Basnight - What I Wouldn't do
13. BABA Signal - Ukare Kappa
14. Butterscott - Danger 3rd Rail
15. Ken Burke - Dead Cat Song
16. The Masticators - He's the One
17. Lord Litter - Signed to EMI
18. Tony Mentzer - Foodchain Afternoon Saga
19. Johnny Dowd - Divorce, American Style
20. Jack Pedler - Baby H
21. Lenny Molotov - Frame 313
22. Ian Whitcomb - Go to Sleep, Little Cowboy
23. Bob Hoffnar - Another Lotto Winner

Album Description

The Unsound Series exists to make great home-recorded music available to the general public. Vol. 2: Guitars begins its journey on a familiar pure-pop road but eventually veers straight for the ditch. You can hear Beatles-style rock and roll, ukelele renditions of decades-old songs, despairing folk/country music and so much more... and it all works.

Rap Music:

1. Humming
2. I Am Kloot
3. I Am the Fun Blame Monster!
4. Is This What You Want? [Import]
5. It's All About [Original recording remastered] [Import]
6. Katonah
7. Läther [Box set]
8. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
9. Let Me Come Home
10. Lost in a Moment [Enhanced] [Import]

Rap Music

rap music

Recommended Music:

Library Party, Vol. 1 [Import]

Strong & Free

Traffic Jam Jazz

Music: Silver Linings

The End of Silence [Import]

The Bailbondsman [Explicit Lyrics]

The Painter

Sundown

Schmidbauers [Import]

Schubert: Piano Sonata in D, D850 & Lieder; Leif Ove Andsnes/Ian Bostridge; 9 Lieder

The Street of Dreams

Sueno Azul

Stardiver [Import]

Hummel: Piano Concerto in C major, Op.34

Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie Kunz