Tag: Jim Croce

Jim Croce – You Don’t Mess Around With Jim (1972) {1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim (1972) {1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

Jim Croce – You Don’t Mess Around With Jim (1972) {1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Format / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 740 MB (Hi-Res) + 232 MB (CD-Format) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed in Japan by JVC | Cat#: MFSL 1-079 | Genre: Pop Rock
Half-Speed Mastered

Croce’s debut ABC album was also his commercial breakthrough, topping the charts for five weeks, largely due to the comic, up-tempo title tune, a story song about competing pool hustlers, although Croce also reached the Top 20 with the change-of-pace ballad “Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels).” Just after his death, ABC issued the track “Time in a Bottle,” and a newly ironic message propelled it to number one. Continue reading “Jim Croce – You Don’t Mess Around With Jim (1972) {1982, MFSL Remastered, CD-Format + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}”

Jim Croce – Words And Music (1999) {DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Jim Croce - Words And Music (1999) {DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}

Jim Croce – Words And Music (1999) {DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 291 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: DCC Compact Classics | USA | Cat#: GZS-1134 | Genre: Folk Rock, Pop Rock

This latest compilation of Jim’s music is both interesting and valid in that it combines songs that appeared on his three hit albums with earlier compositions that were works in progress of a singer/songwriter finding his voice and an artist searching for directon. Continue reading “Jim Croce – Words And Music (1999) {DCC, 24-Karat Gold Disc Remastered}”