Trouble Train - Live

This is the opening track from American retro singer-songwriter and guitarist Brian Setzer's album, Songs From Lonely Avenue.

Songs From Lonely Avenue is a collection of songs that sound as if they could be a soundtrack to a movie. Setzer told Jeff Baenen of The Associated Press that he first had the idea after coming up with a riff. He thought, "That's really cool, that's kind of dark." It sounded like a soundtrack, Setzer said. "So I got that idea - what if I wrote a soundtrack but songs, you know, like old soundtracks from the '40s and '50s. They're dramatic, they have just the pieces, like that, but they're not entire songs."

Setzer explained on this song, "his friends are warning him, 'Don't get on that Trouble Train.' But he's on it, he's going down all the wrong roads."