Double Trouble (Otis Rush song)

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"Double Trouble"
Single by Otis Rush
B-side"Keep On Loving Me Baby"
ReleasedFebruary 1959
Recorded1958
StudioCobra, Chicago
GenreBlues
Length2:42
LabelCobra
Songwriter(s)Otis Rush
Producer(s)Willie Dixon
Otis Rush singles chronology
"It Takes Time"
(1958) 		"Double Trouble"
(1959) 		"All Your Love (I Miss Loving)"
(1959)

"Double Trouble" is a blues song written and recorded by Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush in 1958.[1] Since its release as a single in 1959,[2] the song has been recorded by several blues and other artists, including several versions by Eric Clapton. Stevie Ray Vaughan named his band "Double Trouble" after Rush's song.[3] In 2008, Rush's original version was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame, who called it a "minor-key masterpiece".[3]

Original song

"Double Trouble" is a slow tempo twelve-bar blues notated in 4/4 time in the key of D minor.[4] According to biographer Don Snowden, "The song's underlying air of quiet desperation stretched to the breaking point is enhanced by brilliant use of dynamics and some truly mind-boggling, strangled guitar fills near the end."[5] According to Otis Rush, the song's title was inspired by a comment by a woman upon viewing her hand during a card game "trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, double troubles".[6]

You laughed at me walkin' baby, when I had no place to go
Bad luck and trouble have taken me, I have got no money to show
Hey, hey, to make it you got to try, baby that's no lie

The song was produced by

vibrato guitar parts.[5] In 1986, Rush recorded a live version of the song for Blues Interaction – Live in Japan 1986
, which was released in 1989.

References

  1. ^ Big Bill Broonzy recorded a different "Double Trouble" in 1941 (OKeh 06427), cowritten by Harriet Melka, and covered by various artists.
  2. ^ "Reviews of New Pop Records" (PDF). Billboard. March 2, 1959. p. 48.
  3. ^ a b Blues Foundation (November 10, 2016). "2008 Hall of Fame Inductees: Double Trouble — Otis Rush (Cobra, 1958)". The Blues Foundation. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  4. ^ Hal Leonard (1995). "Double Trouble". The Blues. Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
    ISBN 0-79355-259-1
    .
  5. ^ a b Rush, Otis (1993). The Cobra Records Story: Chicago Rock and Blues 1956–1958 (Album notes). Various artists. Capricorn Records. p. 10. 9-42012-2.
  6. ^ Obrecht, Jas (2000). Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists. Backbeat Books. p. 241.
    ISBN 978-0-87930-613-7
    .
  7. ISBN 0-306-80415-8
    .
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