Troublemaker is the debut album from former Small Faces and Faces

Faces (band)

Faces are an English rock band formed in 1969 by members of the Small Faces after Steve Marriott left that group to form Humble Pie...

 keyboardist Ian McLagan

Ian McLagan

Ian McLagan is an English keyboard instrumentalist, best known as a member of the English rock bands Small Faces and Faces.-Small Faces and Faces:...

, released in 1979 on Mercury Records. Backed by a core group of Johnny Lee Schell

Johnny Lee Schell

Johnny Lee Schell is an American guitarist and songwriter. In the 1970s, he premiered as a prominent member of a Texas-based southern rock band, Baby. Since his professional debut, he has played with dozens of well known recording artists...

 (guitar and vocals), Paul Stallworth (bass) and Jim Keltner

Jim Keltner

James Lee "Jim" Keltner is an American drummer known primarily for his session work. He has contributed to the work of many well-known artists...

 (drums), McLagan's rough-hewed voice and keyboards along with the party atmosphere permeating throughout the album - especially on the lead-off "La De Da" and Schell's donated "Little Troublemaker" - make the album a late sequel to Ron Wood

Ron Wood

Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a former member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and current member of The Rolling Stones. He also plays lap and pedal steel guitar....

's 1974 debut, I've Got My Own Album to Do

I've Got My Own Album to Do

I've Got My Own Album to Do is the first solo album of Ronnie Wood. It reached #27 on UK's New Musical Express chart. The title was a dig at Rod Stewart as he was more focused with his solo albums than with The Faces.-Track listing:...

, which had featured McLagan as core keyboardist. In the period Troublemaker was recorded, McLagan toured with The New Barbarians

The New Barbarians (band)

The New Barbarians were a rock band that played two concerts in Canada and eighteen shows across the United States in April and May 1979; in August 1979, the band also supported Led Zeppelin at the Knebworth Festival 1979....

, and the other members of that band - Wood, Keith Richards

Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...

, Bobby Keys

Bobby Keys

Bobby Keys is an American saxophone player, and has performed with other musicians as a member of one of the notable horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by The Rolling Stones, The Who, Harry Nilsson, Delaney Bramlett, George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Eric Clapton and Joe...

, Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores...

 and Zigaboo Modeliste - are all featured on the reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 number "Truly".

The album, combined with McLagan's 1985 extended play

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 Last Chance to Dance

Last Chance to Dance (Ian McLagan album)

Last Chance to Dance is an extended play by former Small Faces and Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan, released in 1985 on Barking Dog Records. It is currently available as part of the Here Comes Trouble set from Maniac Records.-Track listing:...

and some bonus tracks, has been re-issued under the title Here Comes Trouble

Here Comes Trouble (Ian McLagan album)

Here Comes Trouble is a compilation album of various recorded works by former Small Faces and Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan's solo career, featuring the entirety of his 1979 debut album and a 1985 extended play as well as bonus tracks from a variety of sources.-Track listing:All tracks composed by...

on the Maniac Records label.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Ian McLagan; except where indicated

1. "La De Da" (2:25)
2. "Headlines" (3:00)
3. "Truly" (Levy, 5:58)
4. "Somebody" (2:58)
5. "Movin' Out" (3:52)
6. "Little Troublemaker" (Johnny Lee Schell
   Johnny Lee Schell
   Johnny Lee Schell is an American guitarist and songwriter. In the 1970s, he premiered as a prominent member of a Texas-based southern rock band, Baby. Since his professional debut, he has played with dozens of well known recording artists...
   
   ) (2:26)
7. "If It's Alright" (2:00)
8. "Sign" (McLagan, Schell) (3:24)
9. "Hold On" (3:43)
10. "Mystifies Me" (Ron Wood
    Ron Wood
    Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a former member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and current member of The Rolling Stones. He also plays lap and pedal steel guitar....
    
    ) (5:25)

Personnel

• Ian McLagan
  Ian McLagan
  Ian McLagan is an English keyboard instrumentalist, best known as a member of the English rock bands Small Faces and Faces.-Small Faces and Faces:...
  
  : vocals, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond B3 organ, acoustic and electric guitars
• Johnny Lee Schell
  Johnny Lee Schell
  Johnny Lee Schell is an American guitarist and songwriter. In the 1970s, he premiered as a prominent member of a Texas-based southern rock band, Baby. Since his professional debut, he has played with dozens of well known recording artists...
  
  : electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
• Paul Stallworth: bass
• Jim Keltner
  Jim Keltner
  James Lee "Jim" Keltner is an American drummer known primarily for his session work. He has contributed to the work of many well-known artists...
  
  : drums

with

• Bobby Keys
  Bobby Keys
  Bobby Keys is an American saxophone player, and has performed with other musicians as a member of one of the notable horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by The Rolling Stones, The Who, Harry Nilsson, Delaney Bramlett, George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Eric Clapton and Joe...
  
  : tenor saxophone (3, 4, 5, 6, 10)
• Ronnie Wood: guitar, tenor saxophone, vocals (3, 4)
• Keith Richards
  Keith Richards
  Keith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...
  
  : guitar, vocals (3)
• Stanley Clarke
  Stanley Clarke
  Stanley Clarke is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores...
  
  : bass (3)
• Zigaboo Modeliste: drums (3)
• Darryl Keys: saxophone (3)
• Steve Madaio: trumpet (4)
• Ringo Starr
  Ringo Starr
  Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
  
  : drums (9)
• Geoff Workman: accordion (9)
• Jaime Segal: vocals (10)

Production

• Producer: Geoff Workman
• Engineer: Geoff Workman
• Associate Engineer: John Weaver

• • The information above can be found in the CD booklets of "Here Comes Trouble" and "I've Got My Own Album to Do".