14-01-2022, 17:10
Maurice T. "Maury" Muehleisen was born on this day in 1949, in Trenton, New Jersey, USA, tragically dying at the age of 24 in a plane crash along with Jim Croce and everyone else on board - on their way to a gig.
He was always in the background - unassuming, but it seems to be widely accepted that his guitar playing and songwriting skills went some way to supporting Croce's fame and popularity. Croce himself referred to Maury as his 'band'.
I had no idea that he'd actually recorded a solo album prior to his stint with Jim Croce - it's titled Gingerbreadd. What a dreadful shame he didn't get to mature as a artist - he had a good voice, which although nothing like, for some reason makes me think of Karen Carpenter.
The lead track from that one and only solo album ...
He was always in the background - unassuming, but it seems to be widely accepted that his guitar playing and songwriting skills went some way to supporting Croce's fame and popularity. Croce himself referred to Maury as his 'band'.
I had no idea that he'd actually recorded a solo album prior to his stint with Jim Croce - it's titled Gingerbreadd. What a dreadful shame he didn't get to mature as a artist - he had a good voice, which although nothing like, for some reason makes me think of Karen Carpenter.
The lead track from that one and only solo album ...
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