No Sweat is the sixth album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in 1973.
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 No Sweat was produced by Steve Tyrell. Paul Buckmaster was brought in to provide string arrangements.
Reception AllMusic critic Ross Boissoneau wrote that the album "may be the jazziest BS&T ever." 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."
Track listing "Roller Coaster" (Mark James) – 3:23 "Save Our Ship" (Georg Wadenius, Cynthia Weil) – 3:43 "Django (An Excerpt)" (John Lewis) – 2:08 "Rosemary" (Randy Newman) – 3:13 "Song for John" (Lou Marini) – 2:53 "Almost Sorry" (Jeff Kent, Doug Lubahn) – 6:26 "Back Up Against the Wall" (Buddy Buie, James B. Cobb Jr.) – 3:21 "Hip Pickles" (Marini) – 1:31 "My Old Lady" (Wadenius, Weil) – 3:15 "Empty Pages" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood) – 3:15 "Mary Miles" (Michael Rabon) – 2:26 "Inner Crisis" (Larry Willis) – 5:40
Personnel Jerry Fisher – vocals Dave Bargeron – trombone, tuba, bass trombone, baritone horn, background vocals Bobby Colomby – drums, percussion, background vocals Jim Fielder – bass, background vocals Lou Marini – woodwinds Lew Soloff – trumpet Tom Malone – trumpet, ARP, 12-String fiddle Georg Wadenius – guitar, background vocals Larry Willis – keyboards
Additional musicians Paul Buckmaster – synthesizer, ARP, horn arrangements, string arrangements, string conductor David Hentschel – synthesizer, ARP Steve Katz – guitar Chuck Winfield – trumpet, flugelhorn, French horn Jimmy Maelen – percussion Frank Ricotti – percussion Joshie Armstead – background vocals Valerie Simpson – background vocals Maretha Stewart – background vocals
Charts Chart (1973) Peakposition Billboard Top LPs72
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