BONUS: Remembering Jim Croce With His Son A.J.

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🗓️ 10 January 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Jim Croce, the singer-songwriter behind indelible songs like “Operator,” “Time in a Bottle,” and “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” would have turned 83 this year on January 10th. In a special bonus episode of Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now, we sit down with Croce’s son A.J. Croce at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium to discuss his dad’s legacy and influence on country music and Americana. Country is Here…Nashville is Now. Check out our Hear Now playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:03.2	Hey everyone. Welcome to Rolling Stones, Nashville Now podcast.
1:09.9	A very special bonus episode
1:12.7	celebrating the life and career of the late great Jim Croce. Jim Croce would have turned 83
1:19.6	this month, January 10th, in fact. Tragically, he died in 1973 in a plane crash at the age of 30.
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