Smoking Gun (song)

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"Smoking Gun"
Single by Robert Cray
Released 1986[1]
Recorded 1986[1]
Genre Blues rock
Label Mercury Records[1]
Writer(s) Robert Cray, Bruce Bromberg, Richard Cousins[2]
Producer(s) Dennis Walker, Bruce Bromberg[2]

Smoking Gun is a 1986 song by Robert Cray. It made #2 on the Mainstream Rock charts,[1] and the next year made #22 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] In addition, for this song Cray was nominated for the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards for Best New Artist in a Video.[3]

Background

The song deals with infidelity.[2]

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".[2]

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