“Trouble in Mind”

Description

"Troubled in mind, I'm blue, but I won't be blue always; The sun's gonna shine in my back do' some day." "I'm gonna lay my head on some lonesome railroad line...." "I love all you pretty women, I love you all the same...."

Same tune

• Jack & Lesllie, "Trouble in Mind #3" (Decca 5561, 1938)
• Shelton Brothers, "New Trouble in Mind" (Decca 5339, 1937)
• Georgia White, "New Trouble in Mind" (Decca 7332, 1937)

Recordings

• Bertha "Chippie" Hill, "Trouble in Mind" (OKeh 8312, 1926/Conqueror 8937, 1937; Vocalion 04379, 1938) (Circle J-1003, n.d.) (Vocalion 1248, 1929)
• Roscoe Holcomb, "Trouble in Mind" (on Holcomb-Ward1, HolcombCD1)
• Karl Jones, "Trouble in Mind" (Mercury 2002, 1945)
• R. M. Jones: "Trouble in Mind" (Bluebird B-6569, 1936; Bluebird B-6963, 1937)
• Lone Star Cowboys, "Trouble in Mind" (Decca 5340, 1937)
• Jane Lucas [pseud. for Victoria Spivey] "Trouble in Mind" (Vocalion 03346, 1936)
• Lucky Millinder & his Orch.; Rosetta Tharpe, vocalist, "Trouble in Mind" (Decca 48053, rec. 1941)
• Jesse Rodgers, "Troubled in Mind and Blue" (Bluebird B-6924, 1937)
• Georgia White, "Trouble in Mind" (Decca 7192, 1936), "Trouble in Mind Swing" (Decca 7521, 1938)
• Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys, "Trouble in Mind" (Vocalion 03343, 1936; Columbia 20109, n.d.; Conqueror 9041, 1938; Columbia 37306, 1947)

References

1. Lomax-FSNA 313, "Troubled in Mind" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. BI, LoF313