Troublemaker (album)


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, Paul Stallworth and Jim Keltner, 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 part three to Ronnie Wood's albums I've Got My Own Album to Do and Now Look, 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.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Ian McLagan; except where indicated
  1. "La De Da"
  2. "Headlines"
  3. "Truly"
  4. "Somebody"
  5. "Movin' Out"
  6. "Little Troublemaker"
  7. "If It's Alright"
  8. "Sign"
  9. "Hold On"
  10. "Mystifies Me"

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