website  facebook  instagram  twitter  youtube A.J.Croce performs Croce Plays Croce, aspecial night of music featuring a complete set of classics by his late fatherJim Croce, some of his own tunes, and songs that influenced both him and hisfather. This special event features such timeless songs as “Operator,” “YouDon’t Mess Around with Jim,” “Time in a Bottle,” (a song written for A.J.),“Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy), and “Lovers Cross”, to name a few. Classiccovers may include songs by Lieber and Stoller, Bessie Smith, and other folkand roots artists. JimCroce was an American folk singer with a short-lived professional recording andtouring career, and decades of posthumous fame as one of the greatestsongwriters and artists ever.  With salessurpassing 50 million records, including three #1 songs and 10 Top 10 hits, JimCroce’s short career and long-lived legacy are well-remembered through hisera-defining standards like “Operator,” Time in a Bottle,” and “Bad, Bad LeroyBrown.” A.J.Croce’s 30-year touring and recording career has produced ten studio albumsthat have been released via both major and independent labels, and have charted20 Top 20 singles and all ten albums on the radio including on Top 40,Americana, and Blues. A virtuoso piano player, he has performed at a TED Talkand gave a master class at the University of Barcelona. Croce has performed onmajor talk shows and news programs including The Late Show, The Tonight Show,The Today Show, CNN, MTV, and VH1. He’s toured with such esteemed artists asWillie Nelson, Lenny Kravitz, Earth, Wind, and Fire, and B.B. King. While his lastalbum, Just Like Medicine,paired him with producer and soul legend Dan Penn and an all-star cast ofplayers and guests like Vince Gill and Steve Cropper, his new album was born ofmemories — of favorite artists and shows, but mostly, of late-night gatheringswith groups of friends, many of them fellow musicians, with Croce at the pianotaking requests. Croce revisits these musical evenings on By Request (out on Compass Records) with 12personally curated covers that traverse decades and genres, propelled by hisspirited, piano mastery and emotive vocals. With a rich catalog of originalcompositions A.J. first recorded and released a composition of his fatherswith a never-before-recorded song "Name of the Game" on his JustLike Medicine release. In 2018 he covered the 1973 hit “I Got A Name”for a Goodyear commercial with Dale Earnhardt Jr.