| Smoking Gun | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Robert Cray |
| B-Side: | Fantasized |
| Released: | 1986 |
| Recorded: | 1986 |
| Genre: | Blues rock |
| Label: | Mercury Records |
| Producer: | Dennis Walker, Bruce Bromberg |
| Next Title: | Right Next Door (Because of Me) |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
"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.[1] In addition, Cray was nominated for the 1987 MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in a Video for this song.[2]
The song deals with infidelity.
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".