Auburn Annie
03-10-2005, 08:10 AM
The Folkwax ezine has a review of the early Jim Croce.
Excerpts:
"But there are indeed pleasures aplenty on this first CD. The opening cut, Mr. C's take on Gordon Lightfoot's "Steel Rail Blues," is sweetly folky and features some very strangely and primitively mixed harmonica work, but the effect is not off-putting, instead it's quaintly delightful. Especially in the sense that the Jim's voice is much more fresh-faced and light, showing us what the man's vocals were like long before they gathered their smoky depths for something like "Time in a Bottle."
"...This again is not just an interesting artifact, it truly is an often-gorgeous window back to the beginning of a legendary artist's career. However the main point one will take way from listening is not the revelation or discoveries one may hear about Mr. Croce - the true find and shocking gorgeous surprise of this disc is just the deepening of Mr. C's legacy - it's the staggering talent many of us never knew about in the lovely writing and singing of the widow he left behind."
I'm not sure if this link will work or not but here it is: http://www.visnat.com/entertainment/music/folkwax/feature.cfm?CFID=668797&CFTOKEN=26167154
Excerpts:
"But there are indeed pleasures aplenty on this first CD. The opening cut, Mr. C's take on Gordon Lightfoot's "Steel Rail Blues," is sweetly folky and features some very strangely and primitively mixed harmonica work, but the effect is not off-putting, instead it's quaintly delightful. Especially in the sense that the Jim's voice is much more fresh-faced and light, showing us what the man's vocals were like long before they gathered their smoky depths for something like "Time in a Bottle."
"...This again is not just an interesting artifact, it truly is an often-gorgeous window back to the beginning of a legendary artist's career. However the main point one will take way from listening is not the revelation or discoveries one may hear about Mr. Croce - the true find and shocking gorgeous surprise of this disc is just the deepening of Mr. C's legacy - it's the staggering talent many of us never knew about in the lovely writing and singing of the widow he left behind."
I'm not sure if this link will work or not but here it is: http://www.visnat.com/entertainment/music/folkwax/feature.cfm?CFID=668797&CFTOKEN=26167154