Smoking Gun (song)

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"Smoking Gun"
Single by Robert Cray
from the album Strong Persuader
B-side "Fantasized"
Released1986
Recorded1986
Genre Blues rock
Label Mercury Records
Songwriters Robert Cray, Bruce Bromberg, Richard Cousins [1]
Producers Dennis Walker, Bruce Bromberg [1]
Robert Cray singles chronology
"Smoking Gun"
(1986)		"Right Next Door (Because of Me)"
(1987)

"Smoking Gun" is a 1986 song by Robert Cray. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. [2] In addition, Cray was nominated for the 1987 MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in a Video for this song. [3]

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Background

The song deals with infidelity. [1]

Critical reception

Ed Hogan of AllMusic remarked that the song contained "an arresting, up-tempo groove" which "ushered in the contemporary blues era with its respectful nod to the blues tradition while imparting the genre with an underlying airiness". [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Smoking Gun - Robert Cray, Robert Cray Band". AllMusic . Retrieved 27 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "Robert Cray - Awards". AllMusic . Retrieved 27 June 2013.
  3. ↑ "Downtown" Julie Brown, Carolyn Heldman & Dweezil Zappa (11 September 1987). "1987 MTV Video Music Awards". MTV .
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