Trouble Is a Lonesome Town is the debut studio album by country pop artist Lee Hazlewood.

The work is a concept album about the fictional town of Trouble and its colorful characters[1] and was originally recorded as demos to showcase for other singers.

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Stanton Swihart writing that it is "a perfectly legitimate effort in its own right and characteristically wonderful Hazlewood" and not just a showcase of Hazelwood's songwriting capability meant for other singers.

[4] Matthew Fiander of PopMatters scored this release a 7 out of 10, calling the music "the kind of storytelling that’s full of clever lines and memorable characters" making for "a nearly perfect batch of songs" where "Hazlewood injects it with enough dark humor and brief moments of hope and absurdity... that things never get too bleak".

[7] In American Songwriter, Christopher Treacy gave this release 3 out of 5 stars, recommending it to "those that enjoy some camp in their twang".