Bumps & Bruises is an album by the American R&B musician Joe Tex, released in 1977 via Epic Records.[6][7]
| Bumps & Bruises | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1977 | |||
| Studio | Sound Ship Studios, Nashville, Tennessee | |||
| Genre | R&B, soul | |||
| Label | Epic PE 34666[1] | |||
| Producer | Buddy Killen | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Robert Christgau | B+[3] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
| The New Rolling Stone Record Guide | [5] |
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 edit
The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Buddy Killen.[11]
Critical reception edit
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, "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 edit
| No. | Title | Writer(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 Tex | 3:21 |
| 3. | "Be Cool (Willie Is Dancing With a Sissy)" | Joe Tex | 5:29 |
| 4. | "I Mess Up Everything I Get My Hands On" | Joe Tex | 3:05 |
| 5. | "We Held On" | Joe Tex, Jerry King, Louis Bernard Johnson | 3:24 |
| 6. | "I Almost Got to Heaven Once" | Bennie Lee McGinty | 3:54 |
| 7. | "Hungry for Your Love" | Joe Tex, Jerry King, Louis Bernard Johnson | 4:02 |
| 8. | "Jump Bad" | Bennie Lee McGinty | 3:57 |
| 9. | "There's Something Wrong" | Bennie Lee McGinty | 2:44 |
References edit
- ^ Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 9781440229169.
- ^ "Bumps & Bruises". AllMusic.
- ^ a b "Joe Tex". Robert Christgau.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 104.
- ^ a b The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 508.
- ^ Ford, Lynn (28 May 1977). "'Ain't gonna bump no more...'". The Indianapolis Recorder. p. 12.
- ^ "Soul Brothers Top 20 Albums". Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. June 2, 1977.
- ^ "Joe Tex". Billboard.
- ^ "Joe Tex Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ^ "Joe Tex". Official Charts. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ Hoskyns, Barney (2018). Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted: Country Soul in the American South. BMG Books. p. 204.
- ^ Freedberg, Mike (29 Dec 1977). "Music 1977". Bay State Banner. No. 12. p. 8.
- ^ Miller, Jim (July 8, 1977). "Records". New Times. Vol. 9. p. 64.