A.J. Croce, now 51, was eight days shy of his second birthday when his father died in a plane crash following a concert in Natchitoches, La. But Jim Croce left Adrian James the gift of music, along ...

Never let it be said that A.J. Croce used nepotism as a crutch towards crafting his own solo career. As the son of late singer-songwriter Jim Croce, it would have been easy for the former to come out ...

Singer-songwriter and Upper Darby native Jim Croce died in a plane crash in 1973 at, what was arguably, the height of his popularity. He was coming off a No. 1 single (“Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”) and ...