Songfacts®:

• A.J. Croce's father, the acclaimed singer-songwriter Jim Croce, died in 1973 when A.J. was 2. In 2018 A.J. faced tragedy again when his wife Marlo died.
  
  The song "Cures Just Like Medicine" is a tribute to her, released in 2017 before she died. In 2019 A.J. released a video for the song and added these notes:
  
  "It was a love letter to my best friend. When she passed away suddenly of a rare illness, I felt lost. It's taken time for me to be able to feel creative again. I felt that I needed to send her a posthumous love letter in gratitude for the life we shared. So this video is just that, a thank you note to my muse."
• The song is part of Croce's album Just Like Medicine, one of his most personal. Some soul music legends contributed to the album: It was produced by Dan Penn (known for his work with Aretha Franklin), and musicians include David Hood of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and Steve Cropper of Booker T & the MG's.
• Croce talked to Listen Iowa about what led him to write this song: "I had written hundreds of songs for her, but that particular song I wrote during a tough time. I was broke, moving from California to Tennessee, and wasn't sure about my future. I was starting over in a lot of ways. But we had each other. That's what the song is about. Having that person in your life that is with you no matter what."