"He hasn't seen a wreck like this!"

[Otokichi]

I've got "Jim Croce Live: The Final Tour" playing in the combo drive, when this phrase pops up in the intro to "Speedball Tucker." (The setup: a million-mile trucker is being interviewed on radio and notes that he'd wake up his co-driver to see what happens when a VW stopped to change a flat tire gets between a rig going down hill with no brakes and a gasoline truck heading up a two lane road in low gear.) The intro to the "Ball of Kerrymuir" is definitely "full of images," what's your image of this classic rocker/composer? :guitar:

[Uncle Joe]

I know that Speedball Tucker is the terror of the highways and all them other truckers will tell you that the boy is mad to be drivin' in a rig like that. Love that line..."all them other truckers".

[Steel2Velvet]

Jim Croce was a poet with a guitar wrapped around his fingers. His postage stamp songs were made memorable through his talent to convey imagery by placing common words in a particular order and then setting them adrift in streams of uncommonly profound melodies.

That his casual, curly-headed life followed the pattern of Buddy Holly is an amazing coincidence and is of equal tragedy to we who love good music.

[flowerchild67]

S2V....your words do Jim Croce justice. You painted who he was with your words. He gave us songs that will last forever, and I hope that every generation discovers them. He is missed by so many who were blessed to be here to see him perform live. A true musical spirit.

[_Laurie_]

I agree flowerchild...Jim Croce was a wonderful songwriter...one of my favorites..along with James Taylor, who I have been listening to alot lately.