Trust Me

Album: Pearl (1971)
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Songfacts®:

  • This Bobby Womack song was found, worked up and recorded within a couple of hours. Joplin's guitarist John Till recalled in Mojo magazine May 2010: "Bobby was out in the lobby, standing by the Coke machine, strumming the song on his left-handed Guild Acoustic Archtop. Paul (Rothchild, producer) popped out to get a coffee, and a few minutes later he said, 'Come out here, I want you to hear something.' Next thing we knew we were back in the studio recording the song with the great Bobby Womack on guitar."
  • The song was recorded the same day as "Me and Bobby McGee."
  • Bobby Womack released his own version of this song on his 1975 Safety Zone album.

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