Blood, Sweat & Tears – Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 (1970) [MFSL 2003] [SACD / Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab – UDSACD 2013]

Title: Blood, Sweat & Tears – Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 (1970) [MFSL 2003]
Genre: Rock
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

After the huge success of their previous album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 was highly anticipated and it rose quickly to the top of the US album chart. It also yielded two hit singles: a cover of Carole King’s “Hi-De-Ho”, and “Lucretia MacEvil”. However, the album relied heavily on cover material and it received lukewarm reviews…
Blood, Sweat & Tears had a hard act to follow in recording their third album. Nevertheless, BS&T constructed a convincing, if not quite as impressive, companion to their previous hit. David Clayton-Thomas remained an enthusiastic blues shouter, and the band still managed to put together lively arrangements, especially on the Top 40 hits “Hi-De-Ho” and “Lucretia Mac Evil.” Elsewhere, they re-created the previous album’s jazzing up of Laura Nyro (“He’s a Runner”) and Traffic (“40,000 Headmen”), although their pretentiousness, on the extended “Symphony/Sympathy for the Devil,” and their tendency to borrow other artists’ better-known material (James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain”) rather than generating more of their own, were warning signs for the future. In the meantime, BS&T 3 was another chart-topping gold hit.

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Tracklist:

01. Hi-De-Ho
02. The Battle
03. Lucretia MacEvil
04. Lucretia’s Reprise
05. Fire and Rain
06. Lonesome Suzie
07. Symphony For the Devil/Sympathy For the Devil
08. He’s a Runner
09. Somethin’ Comin’ On
10. 40,000 Headmen

Personnel:

Original Album Produced by Bobby Colomby and Roy Halee.
Mastered by Shawn R. Britton at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA.

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