Bumps & Bruises (Joe Tex album)

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Bumps & Bruises
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Studio album by
Joe Tex
Released1977
StudioSound Ship Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre R&B, soul
Label Epic
PE 34666 [1]
Producer Buddy Killen
Joe Tex chronology
Another Man's Woman
(1977)		Bumps & Bruises
(1977)		Rub Down
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Robert Christgau B+ [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Bumps & Bruises is an album by the American R&B musician Joe Tex, released in 1977 via Epic Records. [6] [7]

Contents

The album peaked at No. 108 on the Billboard 200. [8] "Ain't Gonna Bump No More" was Tex's last major hit, making the top 10 on the R&B chart and the top 20 on the pop chart. [9] The song reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. [10]

Production

The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Buddy Killen. [11]

Critical reception

Robert Christgau praised the "very punchy dance tracks by James Brown out of Stax-Volt," and called Bumps & Bruises "amazingly rich and spirited for a comeback album off a freak hit." [3] The Bay State Banner wrote that it, along with Millie Jackson 's Feelin' Bitchy (1977), "kept fans of well-told tales in stitches with Southern country-soul's best blues yarns in years." [12] New Times wrote that "the rebirth of Southern Soul ... is complete with the return of the great Joe Tex ... one of his strongest sets." [13]

The New Rolling Stone Record Guide deemed the album a "charmingly anachronistic [LP] spurred by a hot Nashville session band." [5]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)"Bennie Lee McGinty, Buddy Killen 6:45
2."Leaving You Dinner"Joe Tex3:21
3."Be Cool (Willie Is Dancing With a Sissy)"Joe Tex5:29
4."I Mess Up Everything I Get My Hands On"Joe Tex3:05
5."We Held On"Joe Tex, Jerry King, Louis Bernard Johnson3:24
6."I Almost Got to Heaven Once"Bennie Lee McGinty3:54
7."Hungry for Your Love"Joe Tex, Jerry King, Louis Bernard Johnson4:02
8."Jump Bad"Bennie Lee McGinty3:57
9."There's Something Wrong"Bennie Lee McGinty2:44

References

  1. ↑ Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN   9781440229169.
  2. ↑ "Bumps & Bruises". AllMusic.
  3. 1 2 "Joe Tex". Robert Christgau.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 104.
  5. 1 2 The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 508.
  6. ↑ Ford, Lynn (May 28, 1977). "'Ain't gonna bump no more...'". The Indianapolis Recorder. p. 12.
  7. ↑ "Soul Brothers Top 20 Albums". Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. June 2, 1977.
  8. ↑ "Joe Tex". Billboard.
  9. ↑ "Joe Tex Biography & History". AllMusic.
  10. ↑ "Joe Tex". Official Charts. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
  11. ↑ Hoskyns, Barney (2018). Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted: Country Soul in the American South. BMG Books. p. 204.
  12. ↑ Freedberg, Mike (December 29, 1977). "Music 1977". Bay State Banner. No. 12. p. 8.
  13. ↑ Miller, Jim (July 8, 1977). "Records". New Times. Vol. 9. p. 64.
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