Jerry Reed Sings Jim Croce

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Jerry Reed Sings Jim Croce
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Studio album by Jerry Reed
Released April 1980
Genre Country
Length 29:41
Label RCA Records
Jerry Reed chronology
Live! Featuring Hot Stuff
(1979)Live! Featuring Hot Stuff1979
Jerry Reed Sings Jim Croce
(1980)
Dixie Dreams
(1981)Dixie Dreams1981
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Jerry Reed Sings Jim Croce is an album by American country music singer Jerry Reed, released in 1980. The album is a tribute album for Jim Croce who died in 1973 in a plane crash during the peak of his career. Seven of the ten songs were singles released by Croce. The album peaked at number 56 on the Billboard country chart. The song "Age" (b/w "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues") was the only single released from the album. It peaked at 36 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Jim Croce, except "I Got a Name", written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel

No. Title Length
1. "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues"   2:17
2. "One Less Set of Footsteps"   2:43
3. "You Don't Mess Around with Jim"   3:08
4. "I Got a Name"   3:20
5. "Time in a Bottle"   2:54
6. "Age"   3:47
7. "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song"   3:00
8. "The Hard Way Every Time"   2:25
9. "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"   3:04
10. "Careful Man"   3:04

Chart performance

Chart (1980) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 56

Personnel

  • Jerry Reed - guitar, vocals
  • Stan Dacus - engineer
  • Wayne 'The Professor' Harrison - keyboards
  • Paul Cooke - drums