Bumps & Bruises (Joe Tex album)

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Bumps & Bruises
Studio album by
Joe Tex
Released1977
GenreR&B, soul
LabelEpic Records
PE 34666[1]
ProducerBuddy Killen
Joe Tex chronology
Another Man's Woman
(1977) 		Bumps & Bruises
(1977) 		Rub Down
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic3/5 stars[2]
Robert ChristgauB+[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music2/5 stars[4]
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide3/5 stars[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.TitleLength
1."Ain't Gonna Bump No More"6:45
2."Leaving You Dinner"3:21
3."Be Cool (Willie Is Dancing With A Sissy)"5:29
4."I Mess Up Everything I Get My Hands On"3:05
5."We Held On"3:24
6."I Almost Got To Heaven Once"3:54
7."Hungry For Your Love"4:02
8."Jump Bad"3:57
9."There's Something Wrong"2:44

References[]

  1. ^ Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). "Goldmine Record Album Price Guide". Penguin – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Bumps & Bruises - Joe Tex | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Robert Christgau: CG: Joe Tex". www.robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 8: MUZE. p. 104.CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. ^ Jump up to: 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 – via Google Books.
  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 (12). p. 8.
  13. ^ Miller, Jim (July 8, 1977). "Records". New Times. 9: 64.
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