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Born out of late-night gatherings with groups of friends and Croce at the piano taking requests, By Request revisits these evenings with 12 personally curated covers that traverse decades and genres - from Pop to Rock and Roll to Soul - and execution is inspired and aided by a full band and horns.
“It’s definitely a personal album in the sense that these are songs that I play for friends when they’re over and we were hanging out, in normal times,” says Croce. “There was a period of time where I was throwing these songs into my live set just so I could see if fans liked it as much as friends like it.”