Zo heb ik A.J. Croce nog nooit gehoord: een sompige bluesrocker die ik zo aan Sammy Hagar zou toebedelen. De piano die onlosmakelijk met de man verbonden is, horen we hier totaal niet, net als op zijn vorige single. Wel zet hij zelf een heerlijke guitar lick neer én neemt hij de solo voor zijn rekening. De backing ladies maken het geheel af. Het is eens iets anders en het werkt.
Heart of the Eternal is op 7 maart 2025 verschenen via Seeding Records.
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“I was sitting on the music for ‘Hey Margarita’ for probably six months during lockdown,” Croce says. “At the end of lockdown, I met with [songwriter and producer] Gary Nicholson on his back porch and played it for him. He told me he heard a name in the song, and I had just reread The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. So I said, How about a blues song about this character from a Russian novel? I would love for it to have been about a margarita that you might drink, but it’s about another Margarita.”
After 50 years and more than 50 million records sold, Jim Croce’s legacy as an iconic singer/songwriter is firmly cemented. A.J. Croce, a Billboard charting singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and performer,... (...)
Over the past three decades, A.J. Croce has established his reputation as a piano player and vocal stylist who pulls from a host of musical traditions and anti-heroes — part New Orleans, part juke joint, part soul. From his 10 studio albums, it’s clear that he holds an abiding love for all types of musical genres: Blues, Soul, Pop, Jazz, and Rock n’ Roll. A virtuosic piano player, Croce toured with B.B. King and Ray Charles before reaching the age of 21, and over his career, he has performed with a wide range of musicians, from Willie Nelson to the Neville Brothers, to Béla Fleck and Ry Cooder. A.J. has also co-written songs with such formidable tunesmiths as Leon Russell, Dan Penn, Robert Earl Keen, and multi-Grammy winner Gary Nicholson. His albums have all charted on an impressive array of charts: Top 40, Blues, Americana, Jazz, College, and Radio 1. The Nashville-based singer/songwriter has landed 22 singles on a variety of Top 20 charts. His songwriting and style has evolved from Jazz & Blues on his debut and sophomore albums, to the roots-rock of the more recent collaborative recordings like Cantos with Ben Harper, Twelve Tales with Allen Toussaint, and Just Like Medicine with Vince Gill.
