Bumps & Bruises is an album by the American R&B musician Joe Tex, released in 1977 via Epic Records.
The album peaked at No. 108 on the Billboard 200. "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. The song reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart.
Production The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Buddy Killen.
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." The Bay State Banner wrote that it, along with Millie Jacksons Feelin' Bitchy (1977), "kept fans of well-told tales in stitches with Southern country-soul's best blues yarns in years." New Times wrote that "the rebirth of Southern Soul ... is complete with the return of the great Joe Tex ... one of his strongest sets."
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide deemed the album a "charmingly anachronistic [LP] spurred by a hot Nashville session band."
Track listing
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