Blood, Sweat & Tears 3
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| Studio album by Blood, Sweat & Tears | ||||
| Released | June 1970 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 40:46 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Bobby Colomby, Roy Halee | |||
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| The Village Voice | C |
Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 is the third album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in 1970.
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 (this may also have been influenced by the band's participation in an unpopular U.S. government-sponsored tour of Eastern Europe).
In a contemporary review, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album a "C", indicating "a record of clear professionalism or barely discernible inspiration, but not both." In a 1981 review, he gave it a "C–" and 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."
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