Jim Croce - Steel Rail Blues (Gordon Lightfoot Cover)

Facets is a self-published album by American singer-songwriter Jim Croce, released in 1966. (See 1966 in music). Croce had five hundred copies of the album pressed, financed with a $500 cash wedding gift that he and his wife to be, Ingrid Croce, received from his parents. Jim's parents had a plan, though. They were certain that when Jim would fail completely at selling the record; realizing that couldn't support his family as a singer, he would abandon the music business once and for all and get a real job.

To their surprise, he not only sold every last record but also made a profit of $2,490. The majority of those records were sold at Croce's shows. Original vinyl copies of Facets are extremely rare today; well-preserved copies are known to fetch as much as $1,000 from collectors.Shout! Factory released an expanded two-disc version in 2004.

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[SilvioManfredDante85]

Cool ! I've always wondered what Jim would sound like singing this song