{"product_id":"trouble","title":"Trouble","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrouble\u003c\/i\u003e, the aptly named new album on Goner Records, is a confident and joy-filled statement delivering the good-news gospel message unapologetically through music influenced by Ray Charles, Junior Kimbrough, Bill Withers and of course, his father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded at legendary Royal Studios in Memphis by Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell (Al Green, Solomon Burke, John Mayer, Buddy Guy, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, North Mississippi Allstars),\u003ci\u003e Trouble \u003c\/i\u003eis the culmination of everything in Rev. Wilkins’s remarkable life, his regional history, his family music history. And in a world once again riven with discord and division, like the Memphis of Wilkins’ youth in the 1960’s,\u003ci\u003e Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e delivers passionate and confident musical performances with a message of hope that meets our present moment equal to the best music from that earlier era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo call the Reverend John Wilkins a national treasure would not be an overstatement. He is the son of pre- war blues\/folk-revival legend Reverend Robert Wilkins and he leads one of the most exciting and uplifting musical acts on the blues and gospel circuit today. His multiracial, multi-generational band blends soul, southern gospel and hill country rhythm, into a sound that has the infectious drive of hill country blues with the emotional heights of a summer tent revival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing in the footsteps of his famous father Rev. Robert Wilkins, a blues-singer turned preacher who went from the juke joint to the pulpit, the life of Rev. John Wilkins took a similar path, echoing the story of the elder Wilkins’ most famous song, “Prodigal Son.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in 2020 John Wilkins’ life has been closer to a different iconic bible character, Lazarus, as he has miraculously risen after surviving a month-long stay in intensive care battling Covid19 in a Memphis hospital. As Rev. Wilkins sings on the closing track of his album, “I’ve come through the storm and rain, I’ve come through the storm and rain, and I made it!”. And there is much to celebrate with this resurrection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goner","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50473771565387,"sku":"1098686","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e6bdd1d1-454f-4179-8bea-ae2105b5938e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727430804","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/trouble","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}