You Don’t Mess Around With Jim – Then Or Now

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As far as the greatest years in music history are concerned, 1972 is right towards the top. With albums like Exile on Main Street, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Harvest, and Honky Chateau being released at the time, how could it not be considered one of the best? However, when analyzing the year, one album that can sometimes be overlooked—but deserves every bit of recognition as its peers—is Jim Croce’s You Don’t Mess Around with Jim, one of the decade’s seminal folk albums.

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