A.J. Croce has built a distinctive career with a warm combination of contemporary blues and soulful roots rock threaded with various facets of pop. The son of the late folksinger Jim Croce, A.J. turned to music in the face of tragedy to make his own mark as a singer/songwriter, debuting in the mid-'90s and garnering critical acclaim during the next decade with albums like 2004's Adrian James Croce and 2006's Cantos. He later signed with the Compass label and issued a straight-up soul album in 2017's Just Like Medicine. In 2021, after enduring the sudden death of his wife, Croce found comfort in classic songs from his old covers repertoire and released an album of them called By Request.