No Sweat (Blood, Sweat & Tears album)
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| Released | August 1973 | |||
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| Genre | Blue-eyed soul, Jazz, Jazz rock, Jazz funk | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Steve Tyrell | |||
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| 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.
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
- "Roller Coaster" (Mark James) – 3:23
- "Save Our Ship" (Georg Wadenius, Cynthia Weil) – 3:43
- "Django (An Excerpt)" (John Lewis) – 2:08
- "Rosemary" (Randy Newman) – 3:13
- "Song for John" (Lou Marini) – 2:53
- "Almost Sorry" (Jeff Kent, Doug Lubahn) – 6:26
- "Back Up Against the Wall" (Buddy Buie, James B. Cobb Jr.) – 3:21
- "Hip Pickles" (Marini) – 1:31
- "My Old Lady" (Wadenius, Weil) – 3:15
- "Empty Pages" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood) – 3:15
- "Mary Miles" (Michael Rabon) – 2:26
- "Inner Crisis" (Larry Willis) – 5:40
