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flotsam

(3,268 posts) Sat Dec 23, 2017, 10:17 PM Dec 2017

Jim Croce Christmas

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Jim Croce Christmas (Original Post) flotsam Dec 2017 OP

One of my heros in high school. defacto7 Dec 2017 #1

.. Historic NY Dec 2017 #3

Just for fun... flotsam Dec 2017 #5

One of my favorite songs tymorial Dec 2017 #2

He performed at my college a yr before he died, he was amazing uppityperson Dec 2017 #4

Always missed. raven mad Dec 2017 #6

defacto7

(14,160 posts)

1. One of my heros in high school.

Reply to flotsam (Original post)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 10:28 PM

Dec 2017

I died a little when he did.

I got a name....

Historic NY

(39,671 posts)

3. ..

Reply to defacto7 (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 10:37 PM

Dec 2017

flotsam

(3,268 posts)

5. Just for fun...

Reply to Historic NY (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 10:58 PM

Dec 2017

a long time ago I heard a recording of this song by Jim...he does a picking style where in various parts two strings are simultaneously plucked by the the right hand-it's pretty obvious-but in this one version during the verse about "The sidewalk band" being slightly out of tune, he actually somehow altered the finger picking to be slightly out of tune. It was so evocative of walking thru a Christmas mall and past memories it almost hurts to talk about....I heard it only once and searched for that version for years but I've never heard it again...