[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I read that he didn’t like touring because it kept him away from his wife and son and, shortly before he was killed, he had decided to retire.

Considering how relatively rare plane crashes are, it’s amazing how much talent has been lost to them: Will Rogers; Glenn Miller; Buddy Holly along with Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens; Patsy Cline, along with Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins; Jim Reeves; Otis Redding; members of Lynard Skynard; Ricky Nelson; John Denver...

[szweig]

Hard to fathom that it has been 47 years since he died. OMG!!
47 YEARS!!!!!

[Berlin_Freeper]

... Inside the Plane Crash That Took Aaliyah's Life

[untenured]

If helicopters count, Stevie Ray Vaughn.

The first album I ever had was a Jim Croce album, “You Don’t Mess Arou With Jim” or some such. It was a birthday gift to me from a friend whom I hadn’t thought about for years until this thread.

I like compelling lyrics, and even almost half a century on I think of Jim Croce as a compelling lyricist — Walkin’ Back to Georgia, Hey Tomorrow, Box #10, the twin songs about the same thing — Bad Bad Leroy Brown and You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, on and on.