Bumps_&_Bruises_(Joe_Tex_album)

<i>Bumps & Bruises</i> (Joe Tex album)

Bumps & Bruises (Joe Tex album)

1977 studio album by Joe Tex

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

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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

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References

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    Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 9781440229169.
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    "Bumps & Bruises". AllMusic.
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    "Joe Tex". Robert Christgau.
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    Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 104.
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    The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 508.
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    Ford, Lynn (28 May 1977). "'Ain't gonna bump no more...'". The Indianapolis Recorder. p. 12.
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    "Soul Brothers Top 20 Albums". Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. June 2, 1977.
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    "Joe Tex". Billboard.
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    "Joe Tex Biography & History". AllMusic.
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    "Joe Tex". Official Charts. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
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    Hoskyns, Barney (2018). Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted: Country Soul in the American South. BMG Books. p. 204.
  12. [12]
    Freedberg, Mike (29 Dec 1977). "Music 1977". Bay State Banner. No. 12. p. 8.
  13. [13]
    Miller, Jim (July 8, 1977). "Records". New Times. Vol. 9. p. 64.
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