I Got a Name: The Jim Croce Story

"An insightful look at the denim-jacketed/handlebar-mustachioed man and his music." —Houston Press

Foreword by Arlo Guthrie

Jim Croce, singer-songwriter of the #1 hits "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time in a Bottle", was at the height of his career when his life was cut short in a plane crash while on tour. Just thirty years old on September twenty, 1973, Jim was revered by an adoring audience for his gentle melodies and everyman demeanor.

Now, for the first time, this memoir reveals the man behind the denim jackets and signature mustache, a hard-working, wry charmer who was also beset with exhaustion at the sheer magnitude of his own success. I Got a Name, told with full access to everyone who knew and loved Jim Croce, is at once a revealing portrait of a great artist and a moving love story.

"As heartfelt as it is sometimes wrenching, I Got a Name is both a loving homage and a no-holds-barred examination of the late Jim Croce." —San Diego Union-Times

"This passionate and revealing book is recommended to anyone who wishes to pursue a life in the music industry, or anyone involved with a person doing so." —Portland Book Review

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I Got a Name: The Jim Croce Story

"An insightful look at the denim-jacketed/handlebar-mustachioed man and his music." —Houston Press

Foreword by Arlo Guthrie

Jim Croce, singer-songwriter of the #1 hits "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time in a Bottle", was at the height of his career when his life was cut short in a plane crash while on tour. Just thirty years old on September twenty, 1973, Jim was revered by an adoring audience for his gentle melodies and everyman demeanor.

Now, for the first time, this memoir reveals the man behind the denim jackets and signature mustache, a hard-working, wry charmer who was also beset with exhaustion at the sheer magnitude of his own success. I Got a Name, told with full access to everyone who knew and loved Jim Croce, is at once a revealing portrait of a great artist and a moving love story.

"As heartfelt as it is sometimes wrenching, I Got a Name is both a loving homage and a no-holds-barred examination of the late Jim Croce." —San Diego Union-Times

"This passionate and revealing book is recommended to anyone who wishes to pursue a life in the music industry, or anyone involved with a person doing so." —Portland Book Review

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"An insightful look at the denim-jacketed/handlebar-mustachioed man and his music." —Houston Press

Foreword by Arlo Guthrie

Jim Croce, singer-songwriter of the #1 hits "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time in a Bottle", was at the height of his career when his life was cut short in a plane crash while on tour. Just thirty years old on September twenty, 1973, Jim was revered by an adoring audience for his gentle melodies and everyman demeanor.

Now, for the first time, this memoir reveals the man behind the denim jackets and signature mustache, a hard-working, wry charmer who was also beset with exhaustion at the sheer magnitude of his own success. I Got a Name, told with full access to everyone who knew and loved Jim Croce, is at once a revealing portrait of a great artist and a moving love story.

"As heartfelt as it is sometimes wrenching, I Got a Name is both a loving homage and a no-holds-barred examination of the late Jim Croce." —San Diego Union-Times

"This passionate and revealing book is recommended to anyone who wishes to pursue a life in the music industry, or anyone involved with a person doing so." —Portland Book Review


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780306821233
Publisher: Da Capo
Publication date: 05/01/2025
Sold by: OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED - EBKS
Format: eBook
Pages: 338
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Ingrid Croce is an artist, entrepreneur, restauranteur, singer-songwriter, and the author of Thyme in a Bottle, an autobiographical cookbook, The Jim Croce Anthology songbook, The San Diego Restaurant Cookbook, and Photographs and Memories-Recipes from Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar (crocesparkwest.com). She lives in San Diego and is married to her coauthor.
Jimmy Rock is a musician, writer, and attorney.
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