Trouble No More
- 艺人
- John Mellencamp
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- ACK
- 发行时间
- 2003年06月03日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Trouble No More, John Mellencamp's first covers album, came together rather quickly, following his performance of Robert Johnson's &Stones in My Passway& at a tribute concert for the late Billboard editor Timothy White. From all accounts, it was one of the highlights of the show, and it lead to this quickly recorded collection of covers. In a little over two weeks, Mellencamp and his band cut a bunch classic blues and folk songs, mixing in a Lucinda Williams song, a Hoagy Carmichael tune, Skeeter Davis' &End of the World,& and &Teardrops Will Fall,& recorded by Wilson Pickett, for good measure. All this suggests that Trouble No More is a loose, rather unorthodox affair, sometimes playing it fairly traditional and sometimes not, which is precisely what this record is. While there are no radical re-inventions here, even with him penning new lyrics to the traditional folk tune &To Washington,& all the music sounds distinctly Mellencamp, since it has the same Appalachian-tinged classic rock foundation that he's been trafficking since The Lonesome Jubilee. The arrangements go back and forth between spare, bluesy cuts featuring no more than one guitar to a full-blown band, so big it nearly sounds ornate. Mellencamp takes this music seriously, so he gives committed performances, even if he takes it serious enough to really loosen up and give the music a little grit and unpredictability. So, Trouble No More is a fairly somber affair, but that's really no different than Mellencamp's other albums. What gives it some distinction is that there's a freshness to the music, largely derived from its quick recording, a quality that has been lacking in his records for many years now, arguably since Big Daddy. That freshness makes Trouble No More a cut above the average covers record of the late '90s/early 2000s, and a cut above many recent Mellencamp albums, as well.
最新简评（共3条）
- @明镜止水(音乐比哲学有更高的启示—...)：《别再惹麻烦了》
- @thighs( )：the end of the world
- @红中侠(莫失莫忘 不离不弃)：翻唱得既有JM自己的味儿又不失原唱精髓。