Troublemaker (Ian McLagan album)

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Troublemaker
Studio album by Ian McLagan
Released 1979
Recorded 1979
Genre Rock
Length 35:11
Label Mercury Records
Producer Geoff Workman (1-2, 4-10), Ian McLagan (3)
Professional reviews
Ian McLagan chronology
Troublemaker
(1979)		 Bump in the Night
(1981)

Troublemaker is the debut album from former Small Faces and Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan, released in 1979 on Mercury Records. Backed by a core group of Johnny Lee Schell (guitar and vocals), Paul Stallworth (bass) and Jim Keltner (drums), McLagan's rough-hewed voice and keyboards along with the party atmosphere permeating throughout the album - especially on the lead-off "La De Da" and Schell's donated "Little Troublemaker" - make the album a late sequel to Ron Wood's 1974 debut, I've Got My Own Album to Do, which had featured McLagan as core keyboardist. In the period Troublemaker was recorded, McLagan toured with The New Barbarians, and the other members of that band - Wood, Keith Richards, Bobby Keys, Stanley Clarke and Zigaboo Modeliste - are all featured on the reggae number "Truly".

The album, combined with McLagan's 1985 extended play Last Chance to Dance and some bonus tracks, has been re-issued under the title Here Comes Trouble on the Maniac Records label.

[edit] Track listing

  1. La De Da (McLagan, 2:25)
  2. Headlines (McLagan, 3:00)
  3. Truly (Levy, 5:58)
  4. Somebody (McLagan, 2:58)
  5. Movin' Out (McLagan, 3:52)
  6. Little Troublemaker (Schell, 2:26)
  7. If It's Alright (McLagan, 2:00)
  8. Sign (McLagan-Schell, 3:24)
  9. Hold On (McLagan, 3:43)
  10. Mystifies Me (Wood, 5:25)

[edit] Credits

  • Ian McLagan: vocals, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond B3 organ, acoustic and electric guitars
  • Johnny Lee Schell: electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
  • Paul Stallworth: bass
  • Jim Keltner: drums

with

    • The information above can be found in the CD booklets of "Here Comes Trouble" and "I've Got My Own Album to Do".