No Sweat (Blood, Sweat & Tears album)

No Sweat
Studio album by Blood, Sweat & Tears
Released	August 1973
Studio	Electric Lady, New York City Trident, London
Genre	Blue-eyed soul, Jazz, Jazz rock, Jazz funk
Label	Columbia
Producer	Steve Tyrell
Blood, Sweat & Tears chronology
New Blood (1972) No Sweat (1973) Mirror Image (1974)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

No Sweat is the sixth album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in 1973. ^[2]

By mid-1973, Steve Katz, one of the founding members of BS&T, had left the band as the members leaned further towards jazz fusion. No Sweat continued in the jazz-fusion vein and featured intricate horn work.

No Sweat was re-released on CD in 2005 on the Wounded Bird label.

Production

No Sweat was produced by Steve Tyrell. ^[4] Paul Buckmaster was brought in to provide string arrangements. ^[5]

Reception

AllMusic critic Ross Boissoneau wrote that the album "may be the jazziest BS&T ever." ^[1] The critic for the Daily Herald wrote that "[Jerry] Fisher's gravelly voice seems the perfect replacement and, while I at first thought he tried too much to sound like Clayton-Thomas, he now appears to have evolved a strong singing style of his own." ^[6]

Track listing

1. "Roller Coaster" (Mark James) – 3:23
2. "Save Our Ship" (Georg Wadenius, Cynthia Weil) – 3:43
3. "Django (An Excerpt)" (John Lewis) – 2:08
4. "Rosemary" (Randy Newman) – 3:13
5. "Song for John" (Lou Marini) – 2:53
6. "Almost Sorry" (Jeff Kent, Doug Lubahn) – 6:26
7. "Back Up Against the Wall" (Buddy Buie, James Cobb) – 3:21
8. "Hip Pickles" (Marini) – 1:31
9. "My Old Lady" (Wadenius, Weil) – 3:15
10. "Empty Pages" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood) – 3:15
11. "Mary Miles" (Michael Rabon) – 2:26
12. "Inner Crisis" (Larry Willis) – 5:40

Personnel

• Jerry Fisher – vocals
• Dave Bargeron – trombone, tuba, bass trombone, baritone horn, background vocals
• Bobby Colomby – drums, percussion, background vocals
• Jim Fielder – bass, background vocals
• Lou Marini – woodwinds
• Lew Soloff – trumpet
• Tom Malone – trumpet, ARP, 12-String fiddle
• Georg Wadenius – guitar, background vocals
• Larry Willis – keyboards

Additional musicians

• Paul Buckmaster – synthesizer, ARP, horn arrangements, string arrangements, string conductor
• David Hentschel – synthesizer, ARP
• Steve Katz – guitar
• Chuck Winfield – trumpet, flugelhorn, French horn
• Jimmy Maelen – percussion
• Frank Ricotti – percussion
• Joshie Armstead – background vocals
• Valerie Simpson – background vocals
• Maretha Stewart – background vocals

Charts

Chart (1973)	Peak position
Billboard Top LPs	72 [7]

References

1. Boissoneau, Ross. "No Sweat > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved July 9, 2011.
2. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 686.
3. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 68.
4. "Top Single Picks". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. September 29, 1973 – via Google Books.
5. "Inside Track". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. June 23, 1973 – via Google Books.
6. "No Sweat". Daily Herald: 31. August 31, 1973.
7. "Blood, Sweat & Tears". Billboard.