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A. J. CROCE Just Like Medicine Label: Compass Records Released: August 11, 2017

One of my favourite love songs is “Time in a Bottle” written in 1970 by Jim Croce for his soon-to-be-born son. Released in 1972 on the album You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, the song’s beautiful simplicity is soul-embracing and I weep like a baby every time I hear it. What is even more heart-wrenching, Croce died in a plane crash the year after the song was released. His son AJ (also a singer-songwriter now) was only two years old.

Weeeeeeep! I’m not trying to be a downer. I just really respect the difficulty in trying to define that elusive thing called L-O-V-E. We can spell it, say it, sacrifice it, lose it, fear it, deny it, make it, break it, mend it, fall gloriously into it or run like mad away from it … but to talk about it or try to explain it - Ugh! Sometimes the more you try, the further away you’re swept out to sea.

Credit: Picture above of Dave Scott is from the Croce’s Park West website.

In the right hands though, music and food seem to bring us back to shore and Croce’s Park West does just that. Ingrid Croce and her husband, Jimmy Rock, know how powerful and precious both of these experiences are, and they provide them to us every day of the week. Talented live music/culinary pairings are not too common anymore but Ingrid and Jimmy have struck the right chord and anyone visiting or living in San Diego should get out to their restaurant and love it!

Click here to listen to Jim Croce’s Time in a Bottle.