Smoking Gun (song)

"Smoking Gun"
Single by Robert Cray
Released 1986
Recorded 1986
Genre Blues rock
Label Mercury Records
Writer(s) Robert Cray, Bruce Bromberg, Richard Cousins[1]
Producer(s) Dennis Walker, Bruce Bromberg[1]

Smoking Gun is a 1986 song by Robert Cray. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] In addition, Cray was nominated for the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards for Best New Artist in a Video for this song.[3]

Background

The song deals with infidelity.[1]

Critical reception

Ed Hogan of AllMusic remarked that the song contained "an arresting, up-tempo groove" which "ushered in the contemporary blues era with its respectful nod to the blues tradition while imparting the genre with an underlying airiness".[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Smoking Gun - Robert Cray, Robert Cray Band". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "Robert Cray - Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
  3. ↑ "Downtown" Julie Brown, Carolyn Heldman & Dweezil Zappa (11 September 1987). "1987 MTV Video Music Awards". MTV. Missing or empty |series= (help)
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