Music Monday: Songs of Our Lives Meme

25: A song by an artist no longer living

New York's Not My Home by Jim Croce

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Philadelphia native Jim Croce was most known for his rollicking story songs, like "Bad Bad Leroy Brown," sweet love tunes ("I Have to Say I Love You in a Song"), and ballads about being a lonely musician, like this one. The day before his hit single "I Got a Name" was released in 1973, he and his long-time lead guitarist Maury Muehleisen died in a plane crash. He was 30 years old.

(Details from Wikipedia, although I dimly remember the actual events: he died when I was 15 and just starting my record collection. I can sing every word of a number of his songs, including Leroy Brown, "You Don't Mess Around with Jim," and "Workin' at the Carwash Blues.")