Trouble

Cover art by Gabe Anderson with watercolor assets by Larissa Wood

SCR-019-2

By Joseph Decosimo

Release date - October 7th, 2022

1 Track - Digital Download, Streaming

Second single off Joseph’s forthcoming LP, While You Were Slumbering

"I learned this piece from my favorite banjo raconteur, Virgil Anderson, who began playing it around 1920, as he traveled around the communities of the Upper Cumberland performing with the Black string band musicians, Cuje and Cooney Bertram. Virgil Anderson was a brilliant musician—an improviser of the highest order. In my mind, his soft, almost spoken delivery and fluid touch on the instrument serves as a perfect counterbalance to the strident volume of Roscoe Holcomb’s music." - Joseph Decosimo

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Lyrics

Inspired by the improvisatory singing and banjo playing of Virgil Anderson with additions by Joseph

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It’s trouble, trouble. There’s trouble everywhere.

Trouble, trouble. There’s trouble everywhere.

Trouble, trouble, there’s trouble all around.

But Lord, Lord, trouble can’t last always.

I am so glad that trouble can’t last always.

I am so glad that trouble won’t last always.

Aren’t you so glad that trouble can’t last always?

Lord, Lord, this trouble can’t last always.

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Performance Credits

  • Fiddle, Vocals - Stephanie Coleman

  • Pump Organ, Vocals - Joe O’Connell

  • Banjo, Vocals - Joseph Decosimo

Production Credits

  • Recorded by Joseph and Joe at their homes in Durham and by Stephanie at home in Brooklyn

  • Mixed by Alec Spiegelman

  • Mastered by Mike Monseur

  • Cover Art by Gabe Anderson using watercolor assets by Larissa Wood

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