{"id":5181,"date":"2014-11-11T14:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T19:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=5181"},"modified":"2014-11-11T14:01:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T19:01:29","slug":"the-tams-trouble-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=5181","title":{"rendered":"The Tams – Trouble Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download The Tams – Trouble Maker<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

How about we cross the great divide here in the middle of the week with some tasty, uptempo southern soul?<\/p>\n

The mighty Tams<\/strong> are one of those groups that I knew about long before I heard a note of their music.<\/p>\n

It was only in the last five or six years that I started to pick up their records, around the same time that I began to dig into the Joe South<\/strong> (whose songs the Tams recorded) discography.<\/p>\n

The song I bring you today is a great 1968 track that was released as a single, and also included on their 1969 LP \u2018Portrait of the Tams\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Trouble Maker\u2019 was written, like many of the Tams\u2019 biggest hits \u2013 like \u2018What Kind of Fool\u2019, \u2018Hey Girl Don\u2019t Bother Me\u2019 and \u2018Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy\u2019 \u2013 by Ray Whitley.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whitley was part of a group of Atlanta-area songwriters associated with publisher Bill Lowery<\/strong>, like the aforementioned South, and JR Cobb<\/strong> who had their songs taken into the charts by artists like the Tams, Billy Joe Royal, Tommy Roe<\/strong> and others.<\/p>\n

Whitely \u00a0wrote seven of the twelve songs on \u2018Portrait of the Tams\u2019, with one each by South,Cobb and Ralph Flynn<\/strong>, and a cover of \u2018Hey Jude\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Trouble Maker\u2019 is a fast moving tune with great lead guitar (maybe Joe South?), a typically wonderful lead vocal by Joe Pope<\/strong> and a flashy horn section.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t investigated the sounds of the Tams, you really ought to do so. They recorded a lot of amazing music during their career, and none of it is going to make you dig too deep into your wallet, so get to steppin\u2019.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Whitley fell into hard times later in his life, living for a time in a homeless shelter, before passing away in 2013.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tune, and I\u2019ll see you all on Friday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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PS Head over to Iron Leg too.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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