Jim Croce - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 8-13-1973

I'm extra happy to be posting this, because excellent sounding Jim Croce concert recordings are very rare, due to him dying shortly after becoming famous. This is another "PBS Soundstage" concert. Note however, that technically the program at the time was called "Made in Chicago." It would change titles a year later and keep the new title until the apparent final cancellation in 2018.

Jim Croce died in a plane crash on September 20, 1973. This concert was recorded a month before his death. By the time it aired, he had already died. Due to his death, his music career got a sudden surge of attention. So PBS put together an hour long TV special about his life. The Soundstage episode about him was less than half an hour long. However, I noticed that there were scenes in the hour-long special that were outtakes from the Soundstage show. I could tell due to the same clothes for Croce and his lead guitarist Maury Muehleisen, as well as the same lighting and stage design. So I took those bits and added them in to the concert. It wasn't a whole lot. In fact, there was only one new song ("Speedball Tucker"). However, there was some interesting banter before other songs. All in all, it added about eight minutes to the length of this album.

This album is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. I hope there's even more in the archives from this show and it'll all get released someday.

This album is 36 minutes long.

01 Rapid Roy [The Stock Car Boy] (Jim Croce)
02 talk (Jim Croce)
03 Working at the Car Wash Blues (Jim Croce)
04 Operator [That's Not The Way It Feels] (Jim Croce)
05 talk (Jim Croce)
06 Roller Derby Queen (Jim Croce)
07 talk (Jim Croce)
08 You Don't Mess Around with Jim (Jim Croce)
09 talk (Jim Croce)
10 Lover's Cross (Jim Croce)
11 Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (Jim Croce)
12 talk (Jim Croce)
13 Five Short Minutes (Jim Croce)
14 The Hard Way Every Time (Jim Croce)
15 talk (Jim Croce)
16 Speedball Tucker (Jim Croce)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CYH8qPSf

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Aa6FrY6koyQNuKe/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. I used the Krea AI program to improve the image quality.