Joe Tex may have been past his greatest days when he released this album, but his mix of funk and comic lyrics was still potent. Spills the Beans contains everything that made him famous: rap-like singing with a good dose of humor, sermons about the importance of true love, and proverbial titles like "Cat's Got Her Tongue." This track is humorous, but not much of a song, and that is probably the only problem with Joe Tex's style on his later records. Just as well as being comic, the lyrics and Tex's laugh can be irritating, and songs that take too much of the style of novelty numbers often lose some of their durability. Except for that, and of course the horrible cover, this album is similar to the previous album I Gotcha, and Tex shows the same skill in mixing styles as there. One track with more subtle humor than usual is the bluesey B.B. King pastiche Woman Stealer, where Tex invokes King, and a bunch of others, to help him against the evil men taking other men's women.
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