Jim Croce : The Way We Used To Be (The Anthology)

 James Joseph Croce

  (January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973)

 was an American 

folk and rock

 singer-songwriter. 

Between

 1966 and 1973, 

He released

 five studio albums 

and numerous singles. 

During this period, 

Croce took a series of

 odd jobs

 to pay bills 

while he 

continued to write, 

record and 

perform concerts. 

After Croce formed 

a partnership 

with the songwriter

 and guitarist

 Maury Muehleisen

 in the early 1970s, 

his fortunes turned. 

Croce's breakthrough

 came in 1972, 

when his third album, 

You Don't Mess Around with Jim, 

produced three

 charting singles, 

including 

"Time in a Bottle", 

which reached No. 1 

after Croce died.

 The follow-up album 

Life and Times

 included the song

 "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", 

Croce's only 

No. 1 hit 

during his lifetime.

On September 20, 1973,

 at the height 

of his popularity 

and the day before

 the lead single

 to his fifth album, 

I Got a Name, 

was released, 

Croce,

 Muehleisen, 

and four others

 died in a plane crash.

 His music continued 

to chart throughout

 the 1970s

 following his death. 

Croce's widow 

and early

 songwriting partner,

 Ingrid, 

continued to write 

and record

 after his death. 

Their son, 

A. J. Croce,

 became a

 singer-songwriter

 in the 1990s.

This three-CD, 

68-track 

compilation 

doesn't have everything

 Jim Croce did,

 missing some

 of the obscure 

1960s recordings

 he made

 (some with his wife Ingrid Croce).

 It does, 

however, 

include everything that

 most fans of his

 would be most

 keen to acquire, 

most notably the

 entirety of his 

1972-73 albums 

You Don't Mess Around With Jim,

 Life and Times, 

and

 I Got a Name, 

which together 

encompass all of his 

most familiar material.

 Alongside those

 three albums,

 it has everything from

 Live: The Final Tour; 

some of the 

posthumous compilation

 The Faces I've Been; 

and ten

 folky songs

 from

 1969 demos

 for a television show project

 (six done as a duo with Ingrid), 

some of which have

 surfaced on other collections.

** The Box Set Did Not Include 

The Whole CD of 

The Faces I've Been 

So

I Added As A 

BONUS...

ENJOY !!

TRACK LIST

CD 1

(You Don't Mess Around with Jim)

You Don't Mess Around With Jim

Tomorrows Gonna Be A Brighter Day

New York's Not My Home

Hard Time Losin' Man

Photographs And Memories

Walkin' Back To Georgia

Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)

Time In A Bottle

Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)

Box #10

A Long Time Ago

Hey Tomorrow

(Life and Times)

One Less Set Of Footsteps

Roller Derby Queen

Dreamin' Again

Careful Man

Alabama Rain

A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business

Next Time, This Time

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

These Dreams

Speedball Trucker

It Doesn't Have To Be That Way

CD 2

(I Got a Name)

I Got A Name

Lover's Cross

Five Short Minutes

Age

Workin' At The Car Wash Blues

I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song

Salon And Saloon

Thursday

Top Hat Bar And Grille

Recently

The Hard Way Every Time

BONUS TRACKS

Circle Of Style

(w/Ingrid Croce)

Carnival Of Pride

(w/Ingrid Croce)

Wear Out The Turnpike

(w/Ingrid Croce)

Can't Wait

The Migrant Worker

Railroad Song

(w/Ingrid Croce)

(And) I Remember Her

(w/Ingrid Croce)

More Than That Tomorrow

Cotton Mouth River

Child Of Midnight

(w/Ingrid Croce)

The Way We Used To Be

Maybe Tomorrow

Stone Walls

Country Girl

Which Way Are You Goin'

Mississippi Lady

Chain Gang Medley

Old Man River

CD 3

(Jim Croce - The Final Tour)

Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)

 (Live)

Roller Derby Queen [Dialogue]

 (Live)

Roller Derby Queen 

(Live)

Next Time, This Time 

(Live)

Trucker [Dialogue] 

(Live)

Speedball Tucker 

(Live)

New York's Not My Home 

(Live)

Hard Time Losin' Man 

(Live)

Ball Of Kerrymuir [Dialogue]

 (Live)

Ball Of Kerrymuir 

(Live)

You Don't Mess Around With Jim

 (Live)

It Doesn't Have To Be That Way 

(Live)

Careful Man [Dialogue]

 (Live)

Careful Man

 (Live)

Shopping For Clothes

 (Live)

These Dreams 

(Live)

CD 4

** (BONUS CD)

(The Faces I've Been)

This Land Is Your Land

Greenback Dollar

Pig's Song

Gunga Din

Sun Come Up

Big Fat Woman

Charlie Green Play That Slide Trombone

Railroads And Riverboats

Railroad Song

The Way We Used To Be

Maybe Tomorrow

Stone Walls

I Remember Mary

Country Girl

Which Way Are You Goin'

King's Song

Mississippi Lady

Chain Gang Medley

"Raps" 

which were featured in 

Jim Croce's 

concert appearances:

Carmella....South Philly

Cars And Dates, Chrome and Clubs

The Chinese

Trucks And Ups

The Army

The Wall

(Bonus)

Mama Tried

(Bonus)

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