[1] Since its release as a single in 1959,[2] the song has been recorded by several blues and other artists, including several versions by Eric Clapton.

[3] In 2008, Rush's original version was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame, who called it a "minor-key masterpiece".

[3] "Double Trouble" is a slow tempo twelve-bar blues notated in 4/4 time in the key of D minor.

[4] According to biographer Don Snowden, "The song's underlying air of quiet desperation stretched to the breaking point is enhanced by brilliant use of dynamics and some truly mind-boggling, strangled guitar fills near the end.

[6] You laughed at me walkin' baby, when I had no place to go Bad luck and trouble have taken me, I have got no money to show Hey, hey, to make it you got to try, baby that's no lie The song was produced by Willie Dixon[7] and features Rush on guitar and vocal, Dixon on bass, Ike Turner on second guitar, Little Brother Montgomery on piano, Harold Ashby and Jackie Brenston on saxophones, and Billy Gayles on drums.