Jim Croce - Facets
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Artist: Jim CroceEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2004-03-23
Music Label: Shout Factory
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Steel Rail Blues
- Coal Tattoo
- Texas Radio
- Charley Green, Play That Slide Trombone
- The Ballad Of Gunga Din
- Hard Hearted hannah (The Vamp From Savannah)
- Sun Come Up
- The Blizzard
- Running Maggie
- Until It's Time For Me To Go
- Big Fat Woman
- Child Of Midnight
- It's All Over, Mary Ann
- Railroads And Riverboats
- Hard Times Be Over
- Railroad Song
- Maybe Tomorrow
- Pa (Song For A Grandfather)
Music reviews of Facets
Music Review: 3 stars for casual fans, while collectors rate it higher...
Rating: 3 Stars
This is the earliest Croce work available, and those of us old enough to buy our own music back in the days when he recorded these folk-flavored songs will get a nostalgic kick from this two CD set. (It could have fit on one disc, however, and should have been issued that way.) Jim is in good voice, but the recording quality isn't always perfect. Recorded in 1966 in a limited edition of 500 LP's, "Facets" does reveal a powerful singer with a compelling but pleasant vocal quality. Jim does Gordon Lightfoot's "Steel Rail Blues" and Billy Edd Wheeler's "Coal Tattoo" to kick it off. We get Jim's musical arrangement of the famous poem by Rudyard Kipling, "Gunga Din" (possibly influenced by the Phil Ochs recording of Alfred Noyes "The Highwayman"?) He also performs "The Blizzard" a sung/spoken tale of weather-related tragedy which had been previously released by Jim Reeves and Eddie Arnold. His version of Buffy St. Marie's "Until It's Time for You to Go" is not as wonderful as her own hit version, but it does showcase Croce's versatility. Jim's fun, funky side is represented by "Hard Hearted Hannah" and "Charlie Green" and brings to mind his version of "Junkyard Dog" which would be created a few years down the line. The second disc has seven of the songs from the 1969 release "Jim and Ingrid Too" featuring his wife. These tracks are quite nice, although a shade below Ian and Sylvia and Jim and Jean, competing couples for the folk music market in that era. A year after that LP failed to sell much, Jim Croce was a huge success, and Ingrid was a mom. If you are a real Croce fan, don't pass this up. If you have only mild interest in Jim due to his greatest hits, you might not need this one.
Description of Facets
Facets was originally recorded and released in 1966, with only 500 copies ever made, using money received as a wedding present. Recorded when he was just 22 years old, Facets illustrates the singer/songwriter?s earliest influences and hints at the talent that would later make him one of the most popular artists of his era. The new version of the album includes all the original songs, as well as seven rare bonus tracks hand-selected by wife Ingrid and son A.J. Croce, as a two-disc set, Facets and Jim & Ingrid Too.Folk CDs
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