Blood, Sweat & Tears 3


Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 is the third album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears. It was released in June 1970.

History

After the huge success of the previous album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 was highly anticipated and it rose quickly to the top of the US album chart. It contained two hit singles: an arrangement of Carole King's "Hi-De-Ho", and "Lucretia MacEvil", written by singer David Clayton-Thomas. As with their previous album, this one relied mostly on songs borrowed from outside writers. However, It received fewer favorable reviews.

Reception

Village Voice critic Robert Christgau panned David Clayton-Thomas's singing as "belching", while calling "Symphony for the Devil" a "pretty good rock and roll song revealed as a pseudohistorical middlebrow muddle when suite-ened." AllMusic's William Ruhlman called the album "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... although their pretentiousness, on the extended "Symphony/Sympathy for the Devil," and their tendency to borrow other artists' better-known material rather than generating more of their own, were warning signs for the future."

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Hi-De-Ho" – 4:27
  2. "The Battle" – 2:41
  3. "Lucretia MacEvil" – 3:04
  4. "Lucretia's Reprise" – 2:35
  5. "Fire and Rain" – 4:03
  6. "Lonesome Suzie" – 4:36

Side Two

  1. "Symphony for the Devil" / "Sympathy for the Devil" – 7:49
  2. "He's a Runner" – 4:14
  3. "Somethin' Comin' On" – 4:33
  4. "40,000 Headmen" – 4:44

Personnel

Production

Charts

Album - Billboard
Singles - Billboard