Good Trouble is the tenth studio album by REO Speedwagon

REO Speedwagon

REO Speedwagon is an American rock band. Formed in 1967, the band grew in popularity during the 1970s and peaked in the early 1980s. Hi Infidelity is the group's most commercially successful album, selling over ten million copies and charting four Top 40 hits in the US...

, released in 1982 as a follow up to Hi Infidelity

Hi Infidelity

Hi Infidelity is the ninth studio album by REO Speedwagon, released in 1980 . It went on to become the biggest selling rock LP of 1981, eventually selling over ten million copies. Six songs from this album hit Billboard charts, including "Keep on Loving You" which was the band's first Number 1 hit,...

. It was the second best selling album in the band's history, peaking at #7 on the Billboard charts

Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...

. None of the songs from this album have been performed by the band in concert since 1983. The single "Keep the Fire Burnin'

Keep the Fire Burnin'

"Keep the Fire Burnin" is the title of a 1982 song by REO Speedwagon from their 1982 album Good Trouble.-Chart performance:...

" gave the band a #7 hit on Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

's Pop Singles Chart

Billboard Hot 100

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 and a #2 hit on the Mainstream Rock Tracks

Mainstream Rock Tracks

Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music. Modern rock tracks are counted in the Alternative Songs chart.This chart began with the March 21, 1981, issue...

 chart, their highest-charting hit on this chart.

Track listing

1. "Keep the Fire Burnin'
   Keep the Fire Burnin'
   "Keep the Fire Burnin" is the title of a 1982 song by REO Speedwagon from their 1982 album Good Trouble.-Chart performance:...
   
   " (Kevin Cronin) - 3:53
2. "Sweet Time" (Cronin) - 3:08
3. "Girl with the Heart of Gold" (Bruce Hall) - 4:24
4. "Every Now and Then" (Gary Richrath) - 4:00
5. "I'll Follow You" (Richrath) - 4:24
6. "The Key" (Cronin) - 3:26
7. "Back in My Heart Again" (Richrath) - 3:19
8. "Let's Be-Bop" (Hall) - 3:14
9. "Stillness of the Night" (Richrath) - 3:43
10. "Good Trouble" (Cronin) - 4:08

REO Speedwagon

• Kevin Cronin
  Kevin Cronin
  Kevin Cronin is the lead vocalist/ rhythm guitarist/ occasional pianist for the American rock band, REO Speedwagon. REO Speedwagon had two #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 written by Cronin, "Keep on Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling" .- Early life and career :Cronin was born in Evanston,...
  
   - acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
  , piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  , rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Gary Richrath
  Gary Richrath
  Gary Richrath is an American guitarist, best known as a member of the band REO Speedwagon from 1970 until 1989...
  
   - lead guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  
• Neal Doughty
  Neal Doughty
  Neal Doughty is an American keyboardist and the sole remaining founding member of REO Speedwagon.Doughty wrote "Sky Blues" from 1973, "One Lonely Night" from 1984 and "Variety Tonight" from 1987...
  
   - organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  , synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
  
  , piano, Hammond organ
  Hammond organ
  The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...
  
  
• Bruce Hall
  Bruce Hall
  Bruce Hall is a residential college of the Australian National University, in Canberra, Australia, housing about 336 students. Bruce Hall is notable for being the first co-educational residential college in Australia....
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , guitar, vocals
• Alan Gratzer - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , tambourine
  Tambourine
  The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
  
  , background vocals

Additional Musicians

• Scott Forman: Chimes, Shaker, Crotales
  Crotales
  thumb|right|Crotales are often used with other mallet percussionCrotales , sometimes called antique cymbals, are percussion instruments consisting of small, tuned bronze or brass disks. Each is about 4 inches in diameter with a flat top surface and a nipple on the base. They are commonly...
  
  
• Steve Forman: Percussion
• Tom Kelly: Vocals
• N. Yoletta: Vocals

Production

• Produced By Kevin Cronin, Gary Richrath, Alan Gratzer & Kevin Beamish
• Engineers: Kevin Beamish
• Assistant Engineers: Bruce Barris, Tom Cummings
• Mastering: Jeff Sanders