"Trouble No More" | ||||
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Single by Muddy Waters | ||||
B-side | "Sugar Sweet" | |||
Released | 1955-56 | |||
Format | 7" 45rpm, 10" 78rpm | |||
Recorded | Chicago November 3, 1955 |
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Genre | Blues | |||
Length | 2:40 | |||
Label | Chess (Cat. No. 1612) | |||
Writer(s) | See text | |||
Muddy Waters singles chronology | ||||
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"Trouble No More" is an upbeat blues song first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1955. The song was a hit the following year, reaching #7 in the Billboard R&B chart. Backing Muddy Waters were Jimmy Rogers (electric guitar), Little Walter (amplified harmonica), Otis Spann (piano), Willie Dixon (bass), Francis Clay (drums), a loose group of fellow Chess recording artists, sometimes known as the "Headhunters," who were instrumental in defining Chicago blues.
"Trouble No More" is a variation of "Someday Baby Blues," recorded by Sleepy John Estes in 1935 (Champion 50068/Decca 7279), a song that has been interpreted and recorded by numerous artists. "Muddy Waters calls his "Trouble No More" and Big Maceo titled his "Worried Life Blues." Be that as it may. . . they all derive from Sleepy John Estes' 1935 classic "Someday Baby Blues." As he did with "Rollin' Stone," "Rollin' and Tumblin'," "Walkin' Blues," and "Baby Please Don't Go," Muddy Waters took an older country blues and made it into a Chicago blues. Waters also modified the lyrics, using "Someday baby, you ain't gonna trouble, poor me anymore" instead of Estes' "Someday baby, you ain't gonna worry, my mind anymore" (Estes' 1938 version "New Someday Baby" uses "trouble" in place of "worry;" Bob Dylan's 2006 "Someday Baby" uses ". . . trouble, poor me anymore").