AJ Croce is a spontaneous kind of guy. The 35-year-old singer-songwriter from San Diego puts his spontaneity on display every time he performs to packed houses. of his Turonesi.
“I play what I feel at the time. I leave the rest to the audience,” Croce said from his southern California home in a recent phone interview. “I don’t have a list.”
That freewheeling attitude doesn’t dictate Croce’s performance at all. He has a plan ready just in case the listener doesn’t ask, or if he, being absent, draws a blank.
“Sometimes I need a short list of songs prepared for those situations. It also comes in handy if I’ve had more wine before the show,” he joked. “But it gets better with the game I feel. That’s what makes every show different.”
If last name sounds vaguely familiar, it is. Adrian James Croce is the son of the late Jim Croce, who scored a string hit in the early ’70s; including “Time in a Bottle.” Major Croce died in a plane crash when A.J. he needed
A few years after that tragedy, something else happened to young Croce: he was blinded by a brain tumor. of 4. Croce would spend the next six years in darkness. At that time, he discovered the beauty of music and found his admiration for the keyboard in Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder. .
A few years after he regained his eyesight, Croce played his first gig at the age of 12: a commanding bat. That thing is at the end of the season
San Diego nightclubs during his teenage years. While most of the kids were playing “Pac-Man” in the arcades, Croce followed his music
We shall treat of the course which followed in the first essay at 19
The self-titled debut, “A.J. Croce”, was released to critical and popular acceptance in the classical community. the album comes from legendary recording gurus T-Bone Burnett and John Simon.
The next two albums, “That’s Me in the Bar” and “The Man to Serve”, are strong and deep whites with soul and blues influences. Croce received a sharp “fit for duty” case with the 2000 release of “Transition”. He chose to produce a record that featured his love bands from the 1980s such as Press and Elvis Costello.
That new beginning was made by Croce, which he himself first produced. It was released on his own label, Seed Records.
Like wine, A.J. The old man is recovering from the cross. This is evident from “Adriano James Croce” in a rolling tour de force
which contains the single “Don’t let me down.” It cracked the Top 40 in 2004.
When asked if he has a favorite song in his catalog, Croce said that we call it tough.
“My favorite song ever is one that I just finished,” he said. “Once they are born, as a developer and you think about them differently. The new thing is the most flattering, terrible and the best I have written.”
Croce again switched years with more sounding CD “Cantos”.
I wrote a recording-studio”>studio and compared it to the demo versions. I liked the demos better,” Croce said. So I refined the study of murder to sound them as I recorded them in my living room.”
Croce’s signature features a cover of Paul McCartney’s classic “Maybe I’m Amazed.” He had covered songs for years and finally decided to include them in “Songs”.
“The fans would always ask, ‘What’s a CD?'” he said. And I gave them what they wanted.
The audience wanted to know what A.J. Croce is a fun and memorable show. “There are very few listeners,” he said. Michael Bizar, who plays the guitar, is playing with me and getting the freedom to just go out there and do what we love we do better.
