Humour Me is an album by the American-Canadian musician Jesse Winchester, released in 1988.[3][4] It was his first album in seven years.[5]Humour Me was nominated for a Juno Award, in the "Best Roots or Traditional Album" category.[6] "Well-a-Wiggy" had been a minor hit for the Weather Girls.[7]
The Globe and Mail panned the "romantic cliche and kitschy arrangements."[10] The Toronto Star wrote: "Warm, lean, smooth, the singer's voice is a marvellous, communicative instrument, never overwhelmed by fancy arrangements or star instrumentalists."[17] The Windsor Star considered "Too Weak to Say Goodbye" to be the album's best song.[16]
The Washington Post called the album "strictly mid-level stuff," but conceded that it was "nevertheless chock-full of songs that combine insinuating melodies and rhythms with tender sentiments so deftly handled that they never sound as trite as they might appear on paper."[18] The Ottawa Citizen stated that the music ranges from "earthy front porch blues and cafe folk to the odd lounge lizard croon."[19]
AllMusic wrote that "Humour Me lacked the depth of Winchester's best work, but it was easily on a par with his substantial body of craftsmanlike music of the mid-'70s... His voice remained warm and supple."[14]
