Tribute - A new favorite from an old great

Hey all,

One of my biggest inspirations to attempt to learn guitar was Jim Croce.  I was fortunate enough to find a cassette tape of him as a kid and always loved his music ever since.  For a long time my favorite song of his was New York's Not my Home, followed closely by Lover's Cross and then his more famous songs (Time in a Bottle, I'll Have to Say I Love you in a Song, Operator, Photographs and Memories, etc).  Anyway, I bought a Jim Croce songbook at my local guitar shoppe and one of the songs was called Age.  I had never heard of it, and after a bit of searching I was able to at least hear a cover of it (I've since found the actual recording, which perhaps I will try to make a tribute video for)  Here is the cover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jrkDu3FMbQ

I'm hoping by posting this that some of the younger folks (or older folks) that may have never heard Jim Croce get the opportunity to do so and REALLY listen to his lyrics.  One of the reasons I don't care for most of the music out today is that the lyrics don't seem to be inspired or mean anything.  Songs used to tell stories about the singer or invoke some real emotion, and I just haven't seen that for at least 10 years.  Just for the hell of it, here are a few of the other songs I mentioned (I tried to avoid covers, but had a tough time.  Most of the covers I picked are really good tho)

New York's Not my Home (cover) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wp_Dc-e5HY

Lover's Cross - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YztRcNLndHQ

Operator (actual video of Jim!) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2iS8XctJKo

Time in a Bottle (cover) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSp0PEBuzEc

Photographs and Memories (cover) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1hkwmNV-gs

I'll Have to Say I Love you in a Song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pi4DSslE5g

It was kind of a big post, but as Jim would say, "If you dig it, do it.  And if you really dig it, do it twice."