No Sweat (Blood, Sweat & Tears album)

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No Sweat
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1973
Studio
Genre Rock, jazz
Label Columbia
Producer Steve Tyrell
Blood, Sweat & Tears chronology
New Blood
(1972)
No Sweat
(1973)
Mirror Image
(1974)
Professional ratings
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No Sweat is the sixth album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in 1973. [2]

Contents

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

Additional musicians

Charts

Chart (1973)Peak
position
Billboard Top LPs72 [7]

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References

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  2. 1 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.
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