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BONUS: Remembering Jim Croce With His Son A.J.

Jim Croce, the singer-songwriter behind indelible songs like “Operator,” “Time in a Bottle,” and “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” would have turned 83 this year on January 10th. In a special bonus episode of Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now, we sit down with Croce’s son A.J. Croce at Nashvil ...  Show more

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