“Hello Trouble” is a honky-tonk country song written by Orville Couch and Eddie McDuff. Couch recorded it himself in 1962, and his version became a country hit, reaching the upper rungs of the chart.
The song’s hook is its conceit: the singer greets Trouble as though it were an old acquaintance walking back through the door, a personification that lets a familiar lament about heartache and bad luck land with a wry, conversational twist. That mix of woe and wit made it a natural for country and, in time, bluegrass singers.
“Hello Trouble” gained still wider currency after Buck Owens and his Buckaroos recorded it in the mid-1960s, and it went on to be cut by a string of country and bluegrass acts.
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