Trouble

Composers: Keith Richards & Steve Jordan
Recording date: Between April 2011 and 2014
Recording location: Germano Studios, One East Recording & Brooklyn Recording, New York City, USA
Producers: Keith Richards & Steve Jordan               Chief engineer: Dave O'Donnell
Mixers: Dave O'Donnell, Keith Richards & Steve Jordan



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Line-up:

Drums: Steve Jordan
Bass: Keith Richards
Acoustic guitars: Keith Richards 
Electric guitars: Keith Richards
Slide electric guitar: Waddy Wachtel
Lead vocals: Keith Richards 
Background vocals: Keith Richards, Steve Jordan & Bernard Fowler 
Percussion: Steve Jordan 


Just because you find yourself
Off the streets again
That don't mean that I can help you
Or I ain't your friend

Baby trouble is your middle name
The trouble is that that's your game

Now you're out of circulation
Out of reach and out of touch
Let me keep you in the loop
Though I can't tell you much

Maybe trouble is your middle name
The trouble is that that's your game

Just because I can't see you, see you anymore
That's because, honey, you're doing 2 to 4

Baby trouble is your middle name
The trouble is that that's your game - ooh yeah

Just because you find yourself
Back in jail again
That don't mean we can't connect, you know
I'm still your friend

Baby trouble is your middle name
The trouble is that that's your game - mm yeah...

Trouble...

Even though you're still inside
I could get you off the hook
But I know if I get you out
I won't get a second look

Baby trouble is your middle name
The trouble is that that's your game - oh mmm...

Trouble

Too much trouble

Too much trouble

Trouble
 
 

TrackTalk

Right where I'm sitting now in my sunroom where I wrote it, it seemed like a real Hank Williams kind of song. But I think Waddy Wachtel pointed out to me that Hank Williams songs - that style of music - can easily be rocked up and moved up. Of course, it could be a rock and roll song! Turning Hank into rock and roll is not particularly accepted or thought about, but in actual fact Hank Williams' impact on rock and roll was enormous. I think from that you get the Everly Brothers stuff, and Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. So here I'm doing Trouble, and I'm seeing it shifting from like 1949 to like 1958. And yeah, how would the Everlys have handled this? Or Chet Atkins? Or Hank Garland, who is also another guitar player with that kind of style? We just moved it up with the drums. Also, in the back of my mind, I always thought of Trouble in terms of Poor Jenny by the Everly Brothers.

- Keith Richards, September 2015

It was (about) a combination of ladies that you wouldn't wish to know.

- Keith Richards, September 2015
 

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