Blood, Sweat & Tears 4 [PA]

Performer: Blood, Sweat & Tears
Distributor: Ryko Distribution

Notes: Blood, Sweat & Tears: Steve Katz (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, harmonica); David Clayton-Thomas (vocals, guitar); Jim Fielder (guitar, bass); Dick Halligan (flute, trombone, piano, organ); Fred Lipsius (clarinet, alto saxophone, piano, organ); Lew Soloff (trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet); Chuck Winfield (trumpet, flugelhorn); Dave Bargeron (trombone, bass trombone, tuba, baritone horn); Bobby Colomby (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Don Heckman (clarinet, bass clarinet); Michael Smith (congas). Producers: Don Heckman, Bobby Colomby, Roy Halee. Reissue producer: Bob Irwin. Includes liner notes by Don Heckman. Digitally remastered by Vic Anesini (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York). Blood, Sweat & Tears: David Clayton-Thomas (vocals); Steve Katz (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, harmonica); Dick Halligan (flute, trombone, piano); Lewis Soloff (trumpet, piccolo trumpet, flugelhorn, baritone horn); Dave Bargeron (trombone, bass trombone, tuba); Jim Felder (electric bass); Bobby Colomby (drums, percussion). Personnel: Fred Lipsius (clarinet, alto saxophone, piano, organ); Chuck Winfield (trumpet, flugelhorn). Audio Remasterer: Joe Reagoso. Previous efforts having relied heavily on covers, Blood, Sweat and Tears fourth album was their first mostly self-composed set. The results were surprisingly impressive. Leader David Clayton-Thomas penned the album's big hit, the bluesy "Go Down Gamblin'" and, for the first time on their albums, played raunchy lead guitar. The band's other guitarist, Steve Katz, contributed the folky "For My Lady" and "Mama Gets High," the latter being perhaps the first fully realized rock/dixieland jazz hybrid. There's also a radical deconstruction of the Motown standard "Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)," and "John the Baptist (Holy John)," a contribution by founding member Al Kooper that wouldn't have been out of place on the band's Kooper-led debut album.

Rolling Stone (8/5/71, p.43) - "...the best...Blood, Sweat, & Tears album since the first..."

As initially conceived by Al Kooper, Blood, Sweat & Tears was the first and best of the jazz-rock horn bands. Though Kooper departed after the debut album, new singer David Clayton-Thomas led the band to huge commercial success with a more pop-oriented approach. BST--in both its Kooper and Clayton-Thomas incarnations--epitomized post-'60s eclecticism, crafting Top 40 hits out of musical influences as disparate as Billie Holiday, Tim Buckley, and Erik Satie.

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