Bumps & Bruises (Joe Tex album)

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

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]

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 – via Google Books.
  2. "Bumps & Bruises - Joe Tex | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. "Robert Christgau: CG: Joe Tex". www.robertchristgau.com.
  4. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 104.
  5. 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. No. 12. p. 8.
  13. Miller, Jim (July 8, 1977). "Records". New Times. 9: 64.
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