Description
LABEL: BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 11/25/2022
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1972
VARIANT: 50th Anniversary Edition LP
50th Anniversary Colored Vinyl LP Reissue Complete with Matching Alternate Gold-Bordered Cover Artwork
2022 marks 50 years since Jim Croce released his breakout album, You Don't Mess Around With Jim. BMG celebrates the timeless album's anniversary with a colored vinyl LP reissue complete with matching alternate gold-bordered cover artwork. Produced by Terry Cashman and Tommy West, and featuring the brilliant guitar interplay of Maury Muehleisen, You Don't Mess Around With Jimcatapulted the seasoned songwriter into the public consciousness and spent 93 weeks on the charts. Over the last 50 years, the tracks "You Don't Mess Around With Jim," "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)," "Time In a Bottle," and "Photographs and Memories" have become staples of the contemporary folk canon. The album posthumously went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 1974 and has been certified Gold.