Whole Lotta Trouble

Album: The Other Side Of The Mirror (1989)
Charted: 62
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  • Stevie worked on this with Mike Campbell, the guitarist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Campbell is an accomplished songwriter and came up with the tracks for many of Petty's hits as well as "The Boys of Summer" and "The Heart Of The Matter" for Don Henley.

    In the liner notes for her TimeSpace album, Nicks explained: "I recorded this song in Michael's room in Sydney, Australia, on his 4-track. I actually played guitar, and almost a year later, Michael had worked up a track right along with what I had played in Australia. He wrote a bridge for it, and when I got home from MY tour, he insisted I come up and sing it exactly as I had played it that night; and he could play his track right along with me playing rock and roll guitar... I was totally flattered. On the other side of the coin, he is the only person in my whole life who has EVER done one of my songs exactly as I had written it. So thank you, Michael, for all your wonderful music and for sharing some of it with me... nothing like a tour with Tom Petty and Bob Dylan to make you extremely creative. I asked Tom if I could be an honorary Heartbreaker, and he said, 'You already are one, Stevie.'"

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