No Sweat (Blood, Sweat & Tears album)

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

No Sweat
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1973
Studio
GenreRock, jazz
LabelColumbia
ProducerSteve Tyrell
Blood, Sweat & Tears chronology
New Blood
(1972)
No Sweat
(1973)
Mirror Image
(1974)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]

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

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

Reception

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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

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  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

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Additional musicians

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Charts

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

References

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  1. ^ a b Boissoneau, Ross. "No Sweat > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
  2. ^ a b 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.