 With steady gigs and a growing fan base, Muehleisen invited Croce to back him up as a second guitarist at local Philadelphia-area venues just prior to the release of the "Gingerbreadd" album by Capitol Records in November 1970.Though commercial results were minimal, Muehleisen's music and songwriting began to have a significant impact—the emergence of a new structural sophistication and commercial appeal—on the musical development of Croce's own songwriting.The result was a sound captured by Cashman and West's sparse production on Croce's three albums—"You Don't Mess Around with Jim"; "Life and Times"; and "I Got a Name", which was released posthumously.