Bumps & Bruises (Joe Tex album)

Bumps & Bruises
Studio album by
Joe Tex
Released1977
StudioSound Ship Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
GenreR&B, soul
LabelEpic
PE 34666[1]
ProducerBuddy Killen
Joe Tex chronology
Another Man's Woman
(1977) 		Bumps & Bruises
(1977) 		Rub Down
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Robert ChristgauB+[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide[5]

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

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, "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 Killen6:45
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. ^ a b "Joe Tex". Robert Christgau.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 104.
  5. ^ a b The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 508.
  6. ^ Ford, Lynn (28 May 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 24 June 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 (29 Dec 1977). "Music 1977". Bay State Banner. No. 12. p. 8.
  13. ^ Miller, Jim (July 8, 1977). "Records". New Times. Vol. 9. p. 64.