Song · Ray LaMontagne
“Trouble” by Ray LaMontagne
From the album Introducing Raycharles Lamontagne (2002)
“Trouble” by Ray LaMontagne appears on 18 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2009 and 2025. It was first released in 2002 on the album Introducing Raycharles Lamontagne. Its best result is #7 on the WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #261 indie & aaa song of all time and #229 of the '00s.
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"Trouble" is the opening track and title song of Ray LaMontagne's debut album, which RCA put out in 2004 with Ethan Johns producing, and it lays out his whole case in a few minutes: a weathered, smoky voice that sounds decades older than it should, over spare, rootsy folk rock that leaves it plenty of room. LaMontagne wrote it himself.
It made it to 25 on the UK singles chart in March 2005 and hung around for ten weeks, and TV kept finding it: The Office, Alias, Rescue Me, Torchwood, the first-season finale of True Blood, and a Travelers Insurance ad about a dog fretting over the safety of his bone.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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