A.J. Croce bringing his and his father’s music to new audience [Videos]

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 about to release a new album and the song “I Got a Name.”

Croce was a staple on the radio all over the country and, to this day, is remembered as one of the greatest American musicians of all time.

That’s kind of a big shadow his son A.J. Croce was stepping into when he started plotting his own path in the music industry.

“To be the son or daughter of a well-known artist is tricky,” said A.J. “You really don’t get to have an identity of your own. There’s no way that the outside world can separate you from them. So, when someone’s listening to you, they can’t stop to listen to you completely. I