Trouble in Mind (song)

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The song "Trouble in Mind" is a widely recorded eight-bar blues standard.

It was written and recorded for the first time by Richard M. Jones (1892-1945), composer and jazz pianist.

It has been recorded hundreds of times, including notable performances (by alphabetic order): Mose Allison; Jeff Beck (Beckology); Elkie Brooks and Humphrey Littelton (Trouble in Mind, 2003); Big Bill Broonzy; Johnny Cash (Unearted Vol. 2); King Curtis (All That Blues); Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler (recorded in 1998); Marianne Faithfull; Aretha Franklin; Natalie Gardiner; Peter Green; Big Walter Horton and Carey Bell; Janis Joplin; Jerry Lee Lewis and Eric Clapton (Last Man Standing); Night Losers; Jim McShann, Duke Robillard and Maria Muldaur; Nina Simone (Nina Simone at Newport, 1960); Big Joe Turner, Dinah Washington.

The song's lyrics echo both despair and hope:

Trouble in mind, I'm blue

But I won't be blue always

'Cause the sun's gonna shine in my back door some day