[Cover photo credit to Jim Shea]

A.J. Croce, who is an artist, singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and son of singer/songwriter Jim Croce, this autumn released a new music video for the single “So Much Fun” from released album, Heart of the Eternal.

The video features A.J. Croce and his band performing the piano track and “party cautionary tale” which has been part of their live act of late.

Of the track, A.J. says:

Remember that time when we got to stay home for a year? At first, I took it personally because I was told that I was nonessential, but after a couple weeks, I started to embrace my nonessentialism. After a year of solitude, I finally felt comfortable having a few friends over. I couldn’t believe that after all that isolation, it only took a couple hours before I could not wait for everyone to go home. That’s how this song came to be.

Croce’s newly released album, Heart of the Eternal, was produced by Shooter Jennings (Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker), and features piano-driven Rock and Psychedelic Soul. Recorded at Los Angeles’ Sunset Sound, the album features collaborations with Margo Price and John Oates.

A.J. Croce became a piano player at a young age and started playing with the likes of B.B. King at just 18 years old. Over the years has collaborated and performed across a wide expanse of genres with people like Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, Leon Russell, Allen Toussaint, Neville Brothers, Bela Fleck and Ry Cooder, to name a few.

He says:

Music has given me everything: it’s taught me patience and compassion and empathy; it was my refuge and my religion when I lost my sight as a kid. When I look back at the music that’s inspired me the most, it’s the music that has real depth and soul to it, whether that’s Little Richard or Otis Redding and Hank Williams or Fiona Apple. Anything that makes me feel is meaningful to me, and I hope that everyone can find that same connection with all of these songs.