Title: Jim Croce – You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre: 1972, Folk
Matrix #: ABCD 756
Condition: VG+ (sounds great) TC

Cultural Facts:

1. Philadelphia-area songwriter shaped in late-’60s college and coffeehouse rooms where folk met barroom storytelling.

2. Written in the post-Vietnam / Watergate mood shift—everyday hustlers and small-town characters treated as social history.

3. Made while grinding a nonstop touring schedule to support a young family—blue-collar labor logic applied to pop fame.